Syria's Assad Should Step Down to Avoid the Fate of Saddam, Mubarak, and Gaddafi @PolicyMic | Zaid Zaid

Syria's Assad Should Step Down to Avoid the Fate of Saddam, Mubarak, and Gaddafi @PolicyMic | Zaid Zaid

clip from article: When Arab dictators are in trouble, they have a tendency to give defiant speeches blaming their countries’ problems on outside influences or other scapegoats. From Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak to Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, the dictators have fallen one by one following defiant speeches in which they swear they will never relinquish power. Saddam and Gaddafi both are both dead. Although Mubarak is still alive, prosecutors in his country are said to be seeking the death penalty. [read more at link]