LONDON – The contrast between the deaths, within two days of each other, of Libya’s Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz is one of terminal buffoonery versus decadent gerontocracy. And their demise is likely to lead to very different outcomes: liberation for the Libyans and stagnation for the Saudis.
伦敦——在两天的时间里，卡扎菲和哈特皇储阿齐兹相继去世，他们的死法大相径庭，可谓对式微的老人政治的绝大讽刺。两人身故可能会导致大不相同的结果：利比亚人民获得了解放，而沙特人民将继续生活在专制之下。