hungary, the other example where he encouraged revolution and did nothing aid those who stood up. put this in the larger context of the revolutions sweeping north africa and the middle east. how do you put that into in larger context? is this an arab awakening toward democracy, toward liberalization freedom? how do you understand that? >> i do. and i think the key point to understand is that it had to be organic. i know that conservatives would like to think that the united states going into iraq in 2003 is really what caused this uprising, but we know that's not true. if that was what had caused the uprise, then they would have stood up at that moment when we pulled down the statue of saddam hussein and they were hitting it with the shoe. that would be the moment when the people all over the middle east would have said, hey, i want some of that cheese, too. but they didn't because that was something that wasn't organic. that was a foreign invader doing it, and they just turned away and nothing happened.