I have just listened to Muammar Kaddafi’s interview to BBC and some US agencies. He insisted there were not demonstrations against him and Libyan people love him, and the armed people are incited by El-Qaeda. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12604760
This reminded me last moves by Mubarak. He could not believe that people did not want him stay in power. I think he might have been ready to make concessions and take a lead to respond to concerns. He could not imagine that somebody else might take his place of Egyptian Leader.
And that explains the last moves, when the expected statement of resignation did not come from President Mubarak on February 12 in the evening, but his love to Egypt and its people was reiterated, his fatherhood of the nation was manifested.
Protests continued and unexpectedly President Mubarak resigned with no fatherhood words to people. And he could not, because, I believe, it was his last will to appeal to people and their sentiments towards him before finally succumb to pressure from outside and inside to go. When he had got an answer from Tahrir square he was stuck down. He might have loved his country and people, but the people seemed not in love with him anymore.
There is one reality about the people’s love towards their rulers – it is limited in time and rested on current deeds not the past. The past used to legitimize only monarchies. Mubarak may have understood how far he was of that status, but does Kaddafi do? In his interview he referred to British Queen to replicate that people simply love him and he does not have any other source of his status in the country. Does Kaddafi in his turn love his people and what is he going to do once realise that people do not love him anymore?
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