Several months ago, when the Arab League suspended Libya's membership and passed a resolution supporting a no-fly zone over the country, it appeared to be a one-off affair. Muammar Qaddafi had worked hard for decades to make himself a regional pariah. His bizarre behaviour, his reign of terror and his absurd policy pronouncements had long outraged and embarrassed many across the Arab world.
So it was not surprising when, in the face of Qaddafi's threats to commit massacres against his own people, Arab leaders took the unprecedented step of inviting foreign intervention to restrain the region's madman.
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