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>> you don't think this is a flareup that these regimes will change and it will be smooth sailing? >> oh, no. you know, all of these regimes have huge pent-up issues that actually are the reasons that drove this spade of revolts to begin with. this is basically a part of the world that's been living outside of history for the last 50 years, insulated by the cold war and all the aid these dictators got from the united states or the soviet union. and then by oil. and as a result, inside they are deeply ossified countries, lacking in real institutions, any what we call civil society. so you crack...

Regime changes across the middle east and north africa should be a wakeup call to the u.s., a call to break our addiction to oil. they are risking their lives to topple their oppressors, it's not about oil, though, but a lot more. that's part two of my interview with tom friedman. the thing i keep thinking about is the sound, the demonstrators in the square made when they were under attack, direct attack, and they had made these metal barricades and they were banging sticks and stones all night, sending the message to mubarak and the attackers, we're strong and not afraid and we're not going t...

Surrendering them to this ad hoc government. it's not at all clear how much hardware is still available to the people here. there were several large bases in the area, and they do seem to have taken control of all of them. we haven't seen any tanks in the street or any aircraft that they have. so it's not clear really how much they can really -- they can get their hands on. >> let's hope it doesn't come to that. ben wedeman, thank you for the reports. coming up, can't talk about libya and the entire region without talking about oil. tom friedman talks about an addiction to oil. keep it comin...

Same thing. i was struck in tahrir square the number of people i would be interviewing. i would say, what's your name? they would say it's mohammed with two ms. it's mohammed abdul fatah. get my name down. i want to be in the newspaper. there's two very powerful i think voices or themes you heard coming out of these revolutions. one, is we are not afraid of anymore. we have so little to lose. the regime has stripped us of that. the other you hear, and i believe that libyan said it last night, i heard this in egypt, i'm now proud to say i'm a libyan, i'm egyptian. these people were ashamed. the...

There's two very powerful i think voices or themes you heard coming out of these revolutions. one, is we are not afraid of anymore. we have so little to lose. the regime has stripped us of that. the other you hear, and i believe that libyan said it last night, i heard this in egypt, i'm now proud to say i'm a libyan, i'm egyptian. these people were ashamed. they had been humiliated by their regimes. they looked out at the world, they saw the world going by, and literally one egyptian said to me, i was ashamed to show my passport. so it's very clear the deep, really human impulse that's been on...