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You said, you have to go back to 1848 to see something like it. what explains this sudden surge of the human desire for freedom so that nation after nation is thrown off an autocracy that seemed to have such an iron grip? >> george bush as in many things was not completely wrong, not in the sense which actually, you know, freedom is a kind of instinct that -- not everybody is. but what we are hard wired for is a sense of social solidarity, in a way, the most important bits of that libertarian -- is fraternity. there we are sitting with our iphones in tahrir square, it was like kind of camp fre...

Revolutions often break out in the spring. you have your easter bunny, have you your melting of the slush, you have, hello, defrosted dog turds. what happens after -- it was wadsworth who always thought about springtime for hope. something about meteorological psychology or something, the payoff is really in the nasty months of brutal summer. here's what happens. if the economic situation is tough and we've got a tough one ahead, people suddenly wake up to the fact that slow and steady taught us slight constitutional reforms do not put bread on the table so they say we've been conned. well, ba...

Wasn't george bush entirely in favor of delivering freedom and raining shock and awe from the heavens. if you can't tell a difference that george bush is vindicated by egypt between actually the military imposition of the former freedom and the staggeringly peaceful spectacle we've been seeing from tahrir square, you really do need to go back to school urgently. >> vindication might be too strong a word but bush did fund democratic reform groups in egypt and president obama did remove that funding just to put the facts out on the table but doesn't what happened in egypt actually demonstrate th...

And if you can't feed the masses then somehow the beauty of freedom begins to dissipate and whoever promises the food then rises up and that explains why revolutions often go through this arc of radicalism. >> yes, you can bet there's someone waiting in the wings. we start -- course one champagne, course two, the provision of falafel or this revolution is in trouble. >> in fact, what we're seeing in egypt given the unemployment rates to take the egypt example since it is front and center right now, the unemployment rates suggest there is no easy answer to that economic dynamic? >> no, are we t...

Whatever his failings, president obama does that either but it is absolutely imperative because this is above all else a nationalist uprising. all those flags in tahrir square, it's not sorry, glenn beck, a communist conspiracy but a nationalist uprising and mubarak was seen as a creepy dictatorial slime ball he was because he was betraying his own people. if the engine of fury is a passion on patriotism you don't want it to be seen as something you're doing in obedience -- >> which raises the question, how do we promote that uprising, that organic self-generated desire for freedom? at the sam...