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Authority and made accountable to the people. >> what were you -- >> go ahead. >> please, go ahead. finish up. >> sure. on the third point, the economic point, egypt is, among other things, a very poor country. about half the population living under the international poverty line and people have been suffering a lot since the revolution as remittances have gone down, tourism has left the country, foreign direct investment has left. stable politics is a basic ingredient but then that government's going to have to make tough decisions on how to get their economy moving again. >> so you have outl...

>> sure. well, the first thing is that president morsi, who is just deposed, was practicing a very exclusionary politics drafting a new constitution without sufficient consensus, ramming it through, trying to silence some of his critics by suing them in the courts. the mistake would be to repeat that in the other direction and try to exclude islamists from the political sphere. that's the first issue. on the police, you know, the police in egypt and the interior ministry have, unfortunately, a very long record of human rights abuses and, indeed, those abuses helped generate a lot of the anger ...