" I told you so " ...

When, in March 2008, the Libyan leader, Muammar Qadhafi warned the Arab leaders that their “turn was coming”, they laughed. It was one of many habitual outbursts of an eccentric, uninhibited Arab head of state, many at the time believed.

The occasion was an Arab summit hosted by Syria, with President Bashar Assad presiding. At some point while delivering his statement, Qadhafi turned to Iraq, reprimanding the assembled Arab heads of state for acquiescing to the US-led invasion of Iraq.

“A foreign power occupies an Arab country and hangs its leader while we all stand watching and laughing,” Qadhafi roared.

“Your turn is coming soon”, he warned.

Every one present, including the Syrian chairman, broke into laughter at the supposedly outlandish quip. And there was more laughter when clearly undeterred Qadhafi went on to say: “Even you, the friends of America. No, I will say we — we, the friends of America. America might approve of our hanging one day.”

That might have sounded somewhat insane at the time, but not really anymore. In the course of the year-old Arab Spring, the prophecy turned credible. Qadhafi’s Libya was bombed by almost the same powers that had earlier invaded and occupied Iraq, and Libya’s leader was brutally killed, certainly with the anticipated American approval. In the course of the same year, three other Arab leaders have surrendered to the overwhelming power of their people, agreeing to step down and thus sparing themselves the inevitable fate of Saddam and Qadhafi. That also happened with the “American approval” that Qadhafi had cautioned his fellow leaders against three years earlier.

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