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Quite good for the world? to see revolution from the bottom up, it's not been done through military means? >> i think what's happening in egypt, tunisia today and perhaps elsewhere, these can be models for peaceful transition to more open, more accountable governance, and toward societies that offer more opportunities, social, economic and political for a cross section of their people. and i think -- i truly believe, and i have for 30 years, i used to argue this in jordan as well. to achieve true national security, had is the issue and debate which has predominated in egypt and many other coun...

Reluctant to take over. it really took over because the situation got so out of control and president mubarak was so discredited among the ordinary population that they've been shoved into a role that they're not altogether comfortable with. john? michael? >> of course, the senior members of the military, they are very much all the government as well. there's a risk, perhaps, of putting a new face on an old guard. how quickly is the military going -- this council going to have to come out with some sort of transparent road map to make the people on the street believe that they are serious? >> ...

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What do you feel? >> well, i think that there are -- we are passing through very interesting times. they're very challenging times, but they also present enormous opportunities. i think that's what we should be focusing on. i think and hope and pray that's what would be the focus of different governments and people and parties in our region as a whole. how can they expand or develop dialogue in the first instance, for example, in egypt we're seeing the first dialogue with varies political parties, and i think that these -- this moment presents enormous, as i said challenges, but opportunities ...

Will promises of democratic reforms be kept? will islamist fundamentalists find an opening? does egypt's peace with israel at risk? and will this freedom that filled the square in the past few days spread now for a region known for dictators than democracy. >> liberation is a word that speaks to that something in our souls that cries out for free m freedom. and for ever more it will remind us of the egyptian people, of what they did, of the things that they stood for, and how they changed their country and in doing so, changed the world. >> at the moment, celebration is the immediate priority....