28 February 2011
There is no doubt that Arab citizens have followed with great sympathy, if not euphoria, the speeches of the tottering dictators these days. The observers must have noticed the existence of a new type of speech that we may take the liberty to call “the dictatorial speech”. This type of speech did not only uncover the intellectual poverty of these dictators and their lack of charisma and minimal qualities of leadership, but it also showed that they are graduates of the same school. We can even assume that they had the same lousy teachers. This is the first time Arab people had the chance to see the intellectual reality of their rulers, and enjoy watching their vain pleas to regain an honorable status and a dignity rubbed by the people’s will in the mud of revolution. This article explores the common denominators between the speeches of the two toppled dictators so far.