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You just dont embark on these situations lightly. you do it reluctantly when you see there are no choices left to you. >> when you look at the broader middle east and you see whats happening in tunisia and egypt, libya, when you look at bahrain, yemen, how unstable can things get? >> very. first, a lot of those countries you named are very unlikely to have as easy a transition as the already difficult ones likely to be in egypt and tunisia. but egypt and tunisia are pluralistic societies that ha...

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His watch. >> do you think the brits and french took the lead because they felt that obama was being reticent or what explains nicolas sarkozy in particular? this extraordinary desire to get very actively involved very early on? >> i suspect it was a combination probably, i fear, of domestic poll numbers. a very bad start to the crisis because of french cabinet involvement in both tunisia and egypt of an embarrassing kind and just the very french passionate commitment to this doctrine of respons...

Real moral commitment to protect civilians to make sure there is no darfur on his watch. i find it a very impressive combination. >> do you think that the brits and the french took the lead because they felt obama was being reticent, or what explains sarkozy in particular, this extraordinary desire to get very actively involved we early on? >> well, i suspect, you know, it was a combination, probably, i fear, of domestic poll numbers, a very bad start to the crisis because of french cabinet invo...

Transitions. there isnt a natural seed bed in which it will be easy to quickly fertilize and grow democracy. >> if you were to put on your old political consultant hat and tell the egyptian democrats what they should do, would they face an army that wants to retain power, anxiety about the muslim brotherhood? how do they make their way? >> i certainly think they need to understand they have as big a problem outside egypt as inside egypt and they have to show everybody that a democratic pluralist...

Traditionally, tii think they d feel they were filling a gap, but president obama came on board on time, and i think his initial hesitation was one that many people felt. you just dont embark on these operations lightly. you do it reluctantly when you see there are no choices left here. >> when you look at the broader middle east and you see whats happening to ni shrsha, egypt, libya, how unstable can things get? >> all those countries you named arent as easy to transition as the ones in egypt a...

Cases than less, the opposition has been locked up whenever its made any kind of descent. so these are going to be very, very difficult transitions because there isnt a natural seed bed in which it will be easy to quickly fertilize and grow democracy. >> if you were to put on your old political consultant hat and tell the egyptian democrats what they should do, if they face an army that clearly wants to retain power, they face anxieties about the muslim brotherhood, how do they make their way? >...