Author: Mohamad Bazzi, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
October 21, 2011
Foreign Affairs
Unfortunately for him and for Libya, Muammar al-Qaddafi betrayed his own revolution, just as the other Arab strongmen of his generation had. His death marks the end of the rule of these old-style nationalist leaders.
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