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But the despot's supporters whittle down to this: thugs with rocks and guns trying to fend off the tide of history.
Phil Bronstein: Yank Him, Obama; Reagan Would Have Phil Bronstein 2011
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But the despot's supporters whittle down to this: thugs with rocks and guns trying to fend off the tide of history.
Phil Bronstein: Yank Him, Obama; Reagan Would Have Phil Bronstein 2011
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Otherwise, the next despot's victims might not even have the option of a nonviolent way out.
Double Crossing Dictators Daniel Freedman 2011
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But the despot's supporters whittle down to this: thugs with rocks and guns trying to fend off the tide of history.
Phil Bronstein: Yank Him, Obama; Reagan Would Have Phil Bronstein 2011
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But the despot's supporters whittle down to this: thugs with rocks and guns trying to fend off the tide of history.
Phil Bronstein: Yank Him, Obama; Reagan Would Have Phil Bronstein 2011
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When it truly mattered, the foreign mercenaries, guns and killers for hire could not sustain the despot's power.
A Thrilling Spectacle in Tripoli Fouad Ajami 2011
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News emerged that the shooter, whose name will not be mentioned here and who should fade away in to obscurity like every other despot's name but that's another rant was a young troubled boy, blah de blah.
Charles Karel Bouley: Tucson: In the Blame Game, We All Lose Charles Karel Bouley 2011
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WikiLeaks tells us that in the interests of "realism" and "stability", the Foreign Office also embraced the unhinged Muammar Gaddafi and briefed the old despot's courtiers on how they could secure the release of the Lockerbie bomber, before the courts had acquitted him of responsibility for the worst murder in recent British history.
At last, Islam's appeasers may be on the run | Nick Cohen 2011
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Ultimately, a despot's power comes not from the armed forces under his command, but the willingness of a people to recognize his authority and obey his orders.
Stephen Zunes: Lessons and False Lessons from Libya Stephen Zunes 2011
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But the despot's supporters whittle down to this: thugs with rocks and guns trying to fend off the tide of history.
Phil Bronstein: Yank Him, Obama; Reagan Would Have Phil Bronstein 2011
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