are playing out there. jay carney, the new white house press secretary, had his first briefing yesterday. he made clear that the u.s. is monitoring this situation very closely. but he reiterated the white house position, as we saw in egypt and some of the other situations playing out, there is not a one size fits all approach to these protests, these situations that are unfolding because each country has got its own customs and the u.s. wants to be careful not to dictate to them how to respond to these protests and, nevertheless, the u.s. is not being shy about saying you have to respect the rights of peaceful preveroteste and saying in bahrain and libya the government can t be cracking down and can t be using violence. let s remember what president obama said at his news conference at the white house on tuesday. he said that these various governments, whether it s bahrain, whether it s libya or algeria, they have to make sure that they are embracing change and not getting caught behin