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White house really believe that would make matter worse. there's already a fragility in both countries and there's a sense at least from the administration that stripping aid would just leave the u.s. with fewer cards to play. so, it's difficult to say whether that will happen. on the other hand, as we've seen from a recent poll from the chicago council of foreign relations, even though u.s. foreign aid is a relatively minuscule part of the budget, it's tremendously unpopular. and seeing these scenes from egypt and from benghazi now, can only serve to strengthen the hands of people who want to...

Corollary of romney's comments. but the underlying dynamics of the election are no longer seen as being enough for romney. he trails obama in the polls and has for basically the entire campaign. he received little to no bump from his convention and watched obama enjoy a significant polling bounce out of his. the economy just isn't proving sufficient to beat obama. that means that the romney campaign strategy isn't proving sufficient to beat obama, which means they need to change it on the fly. when campaigns are losing, they get a little desperate like that. and when they get desperate, they b...

Recently. i know you were in that region and followed it closely. what is your sense of where the arab spring is going at this point? both egypt and libya are countries that had very, very dramatic changes of regime. it's not entirely clear how the political ground will settle. what does today say about where it's going, or does it say really nothing about where it's going, as of yet? >> well, today's events, you know, i think should and can only be considered a setback, but i would say the overall trend, i would say, is cautiously optimistic. there have been successful elections in libya and ...

Ten libyan security guards reportedly died defending the u.s. diplomatic mission in benghazi. thousands of libyans staged counterprotests today in a show of o support for the united states. many of them held signs thanking ambassador stevens for his service, and the libyan government was quick and forceful in its condemnation of the attacks. that, at least, is the situation in libya. in egypt, the conditions are much different. more protests against the offending anti-muslim film have been called for tomorrow. there have been no statements by the transitional government in egypt, not about the...

Through the motivations of the various factions and shadowy militant groups that are currently vying for power. and the outcome, who wins and who loses these struggles, could decide the very shape of american foreign policy in the decades to come. middle east with an egypt that is friendly to american interests is very different than middle east with an egypt that is not. here to help us make sense of all of this, is hillary man lever, and a former foreign service officer, who was twice stationed at the embassy in egypt, and spencer ackerman, senior writer for "wired" magazine, and one of the ...