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Was forced to rein in spending and cut jobs in the public sector. as mark lynch notes in the "washington post," in the past two years, sporadic protests often sparked by some economic malaise have broken out from algeria to iran, morocco to iraq. so with all this, i'll ask the inevitable question, are we seeing the next arab spring? it's far too early to say, but if we were to see massive protests, it would be a mistake to assume that would translate to full-fledged democracy. around the world, autocrats do tend to win acquiescence from their people, as long as they deliver prosperity. but mos...

Court justice involves president obama's brother being one of the coordinators and founders of a muslim brotherhood investment. the idea being that somehow the president of the united states is through blood relations a secret muslim brotherhood supporter, an idea to adadapt, don't think it would clear editorial standards. people have been killed in an escalating conflict in between what are the country's ruling military forces and supporter mohamed morsi, the muslim brotherhood leader ousted from power last month. amid that, pretty much everyone engaged in this fight in egypt right now is con...

Court justice involves president just as happened in medicare obama's brother being one of the part "d," a very tough bill and coordinators and founders of a rollout in its first year, as the bill gets on its feet, it muslim brotherhood investment. begins delivering a fair amount the idea being that somehow the of benefits. >> let me make a quick point here. president of the united states >> actually become very important because it does become essentially impossible to is through blood relations a repeal, although it doesn't secret muslim brotherhood become impossible to reform or supporter, ...

Player. >> well, jon meacham, there is a question of u.s. military aid which is $1.3 billion. mark lynch in foreign policy says the hard truth is that the u.s. has no real influence to lose right now anyway and immediate impact is not the point. pulling the aid is the only way for the u.s. to gain any credibility with cairo, with the region, with its own rhetoric. >> joint exercises are kind of kabuki theater. >> so what? >> isn't that a card you want to save until later? who knows how bad it could get. >> the question is military aid to a military government that's slaughtering people in the ...

It's not going to be any one thing that knocks him out. it's going to be drip, drip, drip. you can see that taking place with newt. people feel like they have a good alternative to romney, sort of. and then there's just one thing after the other. and eventually there's one thing that kind of crystallizes it l all. it could these comment, i don't know. >> i want to telescope out to the broader implications. mark lynch writes a blog for foreign policy. he was part of a roundtable discussion in kuwait about u.s./middle east policy. he tweeted this, first question from kuwaiti press, how can we tr...