and the army is, look, you let us do your thing and we'll let you do your thing, as long as the situation doesn't get out of hand. the situation got out of hand and the army came and said we're protecting the revolution. no reason something like that couldn't happen again. >> as long as it doesn't jeopardize the funding. one of the many reasons we shouldn't exaggerate to much what this decree is going to do is because of the conversation i had with a revolutionary very early on in this process. i said look, are you afraid that with the military still in charge that we're going to go right back to the same kind of dictatorial process that egypt had for 40 years? she said i'm not afraid of that, because we know the way back to tahrir square. it was only a year ago that egypt was an oppressive dictatorship. the competing interests in the post revolutionary egypt that