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Secretly wishing a greek exit from the europe. >> explain that. >> a small economy, 2% of the overall euro zone. the problem is the demonstration effect of greece. if greece leaded euro and converts to drachma, the economy goes into freefall and governments in spain and italy, hopefully in france where you have a new socialist president are going to take a look at what happened. >> it will be ugly. >> it will be ugly when countries leave the euro zone when they try to, sort of float on air and i...

This is a brutal, brutal foe. i was told the story of a seven-year-old child who wanted to go to school in one of the southern provinces and was captured and actually hung by the taliban as a demonstration effect to other children, particularly females and women. you cant go to school. this is an enemy that pledges a return to these sort of medieval ways. and, you know, thats very much at stake. its not necessarily something you can deem in the national interest of the united states to preserve ...

The sorts of things that we do in terms of u.s. troops and iraq and containing iran and all those kind of things, but theres also this sort of demonstration effect of egypt. its a country with 84 million people, more than three times larger than any other arab country. it has had a perception of being incredibly stable. if egypt were to really wobble or if egypt were to fall then the effect of that on the other rulers in the region and republics in the region would be absolutely tremendous. i th...

From under mubarak would be to number one get ahead of the people and say washington decides these matters. there is also the demonstration effect. a lot of other authoritarians that are the allies. saudi arabia and the other gulf emirates. they are wonder figure they can rely on the united states. as you said, we are walking a very difficult line, but i think the administration is making it clear that it is on the side of change. its on the side of a new democratic elections for a new leadershi...

Even if democrats do not have the power right now to fix this problem alone, they want to fix it and they will at least pull out all the stops trying to get it done. and yes, thats politics. thats the pr part of this, the demonstration effect, part of this. but, yeah thats what politics is supposed to be like. you make a principle stand for a policy that you want and you fight like heck to get it done. and whether or not you get it done, you persuade people to vote for you because they like what...

This kind of attack that has taken hold. you now have nice, the berlin christmas market attack. you have london westminster bridge. you have charlottesville where people realize based on the demonstration of the effectiveness, the horror and the terror that ensues, not to mention the prompting by isis and al qaeda in the case of violent extremism this is a tactic that can and should be used against civilians. and the reality is, this can happen anywhere on european streets. unfortunately anywher...

Demonstration effect, if you will. gadhafi, moammar gadhafi in livia is a brutal and cynical leader. you saw what he was willing to do to maintain power, to hang on to power. he was willing to kill his own people. he was willing it besiege his cities in the eastern part of libya. that was frankly too much for the international community. for the rest of the arab world as well as for europe and the united states when we did choose to intervene. and so it may be that if the international community...