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A protest movement. they actually took over both the republicans and the democrats. and that s crucial. i think the occupy movement is really trying to protect itself from the parties. but as long as it remains outside of parties, the fact is going to be very limited. one of the things i think is interesting is the idea of the sort of time scale institutional permanence. that s one of the things i took away from the book. i think what daron just said is very important. and that is political parties are subject to change and these movements have got to occupy the political parties. one last we re not a protest movement. we re an alternative movement. so if we create structures, they are alternative structures. we are at a different table. i want to thank our guest, daron, agemoglu, the co-author of why nations fail. we should know for the news week ahead after this. aspirin is just old school. ....
our pentagon xpont barbara star has more on the air strike that killed al-awlaki. reporter: this is important. this man posed a direct threat to the united states had inspired him by all accounts ordered attacks against the u.s. now this apparently is the result of a two-year effort between the u.s. intelligence community and the people to go after him to find him, target him and take him out. very controversial as he is an american born citizen. killed for his activities in another country. by all accounts, it was a drone strike that killed al-awlaki. there were three other persons in that convoy with him. they are believed also to have been killed. this is something that the u.s. long wanted. this is a target that they were making a great effort to go after inside yemen even as that country remains in a good deal of political social and economic unrest. joe? barbara, if we know how much was yemen actually involved in this strike? and if we don t know that, typical ....