local community there, putting serious strains on society, not only here in egypt, but also in tunisia, and it's very interesting that the president used this argument partly to help defend the international in libya, saying that we have to protect what he described as inspiring up risings in the eastern countries, these revolutions from the spillover, potential spillover effect that we were definitely starting to see in the first weeks of this conflict in libya. these two countries, both libya and tune naisia are both in fra states and their economies have been battered in recent months, the last thing either of these countries would need as they're doing the very hard work now of trying to create new democratic systems out of the ashes of dictatorsh