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Most important force and factor in egyptian politics. egypts a pretorian state and it remains a pretorian state. the real question it seems to me is whether or not the new political secular and largely liberal reformist movement that we saw over the last 18 days is going to be able to stand up and negotiate or renegotiate that contract with egypts traditional institutions. so thats going to be a critical question in the days and weeks ahead. >> okay. this revolution, it was a huge number of peop...

Violence but there wasnt in tahrir square. we are lucky that mubarak had the good sense to finally leave. we are lucky we have in the army a respected institution, and we may yet get lucky that the secular -- we have got seven, eight months to go until the next election, sohe clock begins ticking right now for american policymakers and egyptians to start working with each other to figure out how you build on what you have achieved so far and have a genuine transition to democracy and not a regre...

Worrying. its very important that we get this aspect of it right, too. there are things we can do to forestall the mouz limb brotherhood making a huge gain here. first of all, the majority of the egyptian people do not want to live in an islamic state. they made that very clear. the muslim brotherhood enjoys 15% of support. second of all, the army. the army held together. it will be a major and important institution as a check. and i think what we need to do now this is something the u.s. govern...

Egypt is about the most antisemitic nation. give but if you had to chart a course away from a dictatorship, is this the best you can do? >> im glad to see youre a neo conservative. i dont want to worry my way out of the positive of what has happened, it is tremendous, it is potentially extraordinarily fruitful, we are lucky there was violence but there wasnt in tahrir square. we are lucky that mubarak had the good sense to finally leave. we are lucky we have in the army a respected institution, ...

A powerful force in egypt but always balanced by other force in egypt. theres a large educated group ing-3 egypt. theyve had decades of british influence this egypt. the foreign policy has been leslie aligned with the united states. theyve had -- has been closely aligned with the united states. theyve had a lot of tourism. it is not an is lated back water country. there is concern, i(kmrlx÷oxzç÷- sharia law would be an extreme. the best case is something akin to turkey. where theres an islam...

Mosque and state. you cant do that work in egypt in that environment. the brotherhood has an infrastructure there because mubarak let it have an infrastructure. in a free egypt it will fall away. the ideas of liberty will be victorious over theocracy and secular facism. >> sean: let me ask you this, i back and examined comments of our own -- i went back and examined comments of our own government. they thought the exileed ayatollah would be the next ghandhi. "the new york times" was positive abo...

Umbrella term for a variety of movements. in the case of egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which decried al-qaeda as a perversion of islam. >> glenn: anyone who has a fourth grade -- stop, stop, stop. incant -- i cant take it. stop. anybody who h a fourth grade reading level knows that that is not true. the muslim brotherhood has the name of a religion in the title, so its secular. wow, thats a tough one. however, clapper may not -- maybe he has had a stroke or something. stump...

You cant do that work in egypt in that environment. the brotherhood has an infrastructure there because mubarak let it have an infrastructure. in a free egypt it will fall away. the ideas of liberty will be victorious over theocracy and secular facism. >> sean: let me ask you this, i back and examined comments of our own -- i went back and examined comments of our own ayatollah would be the next ghandhi. "the new york times" was positive about the iranian revolution and the shah being pushed out...

That these statements, are they doing any good or are they, in fact, doing any harm? is a thought the best course of action for the administration to just say nothing. >> reporter: it may be that they have to move to that. there have been critics who have said the president came out too much and perhaps diminished his influence by coming out too much and making statements. and you did see earlier in the day president obama looked halfway optimistic at least he was talking about seeing history un...

Egypt. martha: wow. thats a pretty powerful statement. doug, youve just written a piece in which you argue that it is very likely that the muslim brotherhood will take power in egypt. >> right, martha. what i did was i looked at the public opinion polls, and it suggests strongly that about 60 percent of the country supports the muslim brotherhood or more and only about 20 percent in the best case are secular. id say in a democratic election, the muslim brotherhood, or those allied with it, will ...