“Adoni-Bezek said, ‘Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have picked up scraps under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them.’ They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.” — Judges 1This is how the book of Judges describes the end of an enemy of Israel, defeated in battle, publicly humiliated and allowed to come to his inglorious end.Alone.His predicament is still played out by those who live by the sword around the world, even those who have been so successful for so long, who have lorded it over so many people and lived in power and luxury.In reference to this last week’s apprehension, public torture and assassination of Moammar Gadhafi, the Associated Press noted his demise had a familiar ring to it.“Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Romania’s Nicolae Ceausescu, Liberia’s Samuel Doe, Benito Mussolini and, now, Moammar Gadhafi. No matter how much a mythologized despot or mastermind builds up a cult of personality in life, when an undignified death arrives, the incontrovertible reality is hard to avoid: We are, in the end, merely lumps of flesh.“What’s different today is that sometimes the world gets to see it.“Exhibit A: the surreal odyssey of Gadhafi’s violent ending over the past few days.