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What are the big ideas and are we getting the big ideas right? >> that's such a great question. people are always raising the question, who are the strategic thinkersithin this administration? i think when people ask the question of who actually drives american foreign policy in the administration, at the end of the day it's obama. that i think is sort of really interesting, but they're in such a weird position right now because you're seeing this inconsistency. we're going after gadhafi but we're not doing it in bahrain. you see what happened, how long it took in egypt. we were very quick in ...

Middle east. for this president, for this administration, you have to ask, what are the big ideas and are we getting the big ideas right? >> that's such a great question. people are always raising the question, who are the strategic thinkersithin this administration? i think when people ask the question of who actually drives american foreign policy in the administration, at the end of the day it's obama. that i think is sort of really interesting, but they're in such a weird position right now because you're seeing this inconsistency. we're going after gadhafi but we're not doing it in bahrai...

Happening throughout the middle east, revolution throughout the middle east. for this president, for this administration, you have to ask, what are the big ideas and are we getting the big ideas right? >> that's such a great question. people are always raising the question, who are the strategic thinkers within this administration? i think when people ask the question of who actually drives american foreign policy in the administration, at the end of the day it's obama. that i think is sort of really interesting, but they're in such a weird position right now because you're seeing this inconsi...

Here's mohammed el baradei, head of the arms control, international arms control. here he is on abc yesterday talking about what he says egyptian mubarak should do. let's listen. >> people concerned right now is mubarak has to go immediately. the first step if we need to get out of this mess and it's a total mess, security is not there, it's total chaos situation right now. first step, he has to go. >> well he has to go. do we have any hopes much getting a leader as loyal to us as mubarak? >> absolutely. i think the egyptians have a lot of great people beyond the regime right now. >> who are p...

Talking about what he says egyptian mubarak should do. let's listen. >> people concerned right now is mubarak has to go immediately. the first step if we need to get out of this mess and it's a total mess, security is not there, it's total chaos situation right now. first step, he has to go. >> well he has to go. do we have any hopes much getting a leader as loyal to us as mubarak? >> absolutely. i think the egyptians have a lot of great people beyond the regime right now. >> who are pro western. >> pro western, pro democracy. we have to move beyond this false choice of stability and freedom i...