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Better rather than making them worse. >> and we will keep an eye on it. heather herlbert, thank you very much. with the full newtown shooting report released, some might say it was an inaction on gun violence. but not everyone has given up. we see the brighter side for the gun reformers straight ahead. you're comfortable here.
U.s., for lebanon, and for the region. >> so very briefly, heather, it sounds like what you're saying is, part of the argument, if we do continue to take action or take any additional action, the president and the administration is going to have to really justify the difference between the kind of action we might take in egypt or syria versus south sudan and despite the fact that for most of us here at home, we're seeing violent acts and it's not clear sort of who is behind each of those acts. >> well, what you're seeing all over the region, karen, is people whose countries don't have institut...
In the arab world, 2011 was a year of the tumult and transition. this was the year of the uprising and what began to be known as the arab spring. it began about a year with an act of rebellion that unleashed a year of unrest spreading to egypt, libya, and bahrain. and autocrats in power for decades began to tumble. hosni mubarak stepped down. in libya, u.s. allies aided rebels in outing moammar gadhafi. add to these events the killing of osama bin laden and the final troop withdrawal from iraq, it's quite a jeer. but revolutions are never final chapters, rather, the beginning of new stories. a...