not see eye-to-eye on but there are strategic reasons we do. or we can do what i think president obama has well done, which is to say here are the principles that we believe should be followed during this transition. we cannot reach in and move the players around on the chessboard. that has to be an egyptian-led, egyptian-aren t process. everybody recognizes that. we can hold out the promise of what does lie in the future. most of the people who began to demonstrate in egypt were driven by a desire for more political freedom and economic opportunity. the united states is very good about helping countries realize economic opportunity. we think we can offer that. we are also very good at helping countries as we did after the berlin wall fell, in moving from authoritarianism to democracy. it is not perfect. it is not predictable. but i think it is a better course for us to follow.
some good things to say for the egyptian people. prior to the day we saw impassioned, articulate english-speaking people from all walks of life, expressing things that americans would be very happy to express. we want democracy. we want freedom of speech. then, when the trouble started, we were touched by something else. every step of the way there were some egyptians who said no, we will not return to the stone age. this is uncivilized behavior. time after time, people helped us. in no way do we sit here and indict the egyptian people at all. all the way along we met with huge kindness. but absolute moments of complete brutality. what kept you going through that whole fay lax phalanx? thing that possibly you could survive. you get to that point you are
young people, demanding more rights. the united states stands for democracy. we stand for human rights and freedom. we want to see an orderly transition. we want to see the process that has begun realized concrete steps that will lead to constitutional reform. the establishment of a set of political laws and regulations that will end in a free and fair election for a new president. the united states is not like any other country from the outside, making the decisions. but we are very clear, no violence by the government. peaceful protests. orderly transition. we know the outcomes we seek. greta: two issues with that. the protesters they are not anxious to have this orderly transition. they want orderly, they want it now. they don t want president mubarak to be in office until
differences in culture. and the goal is not to turn every country into jeffersonian democracy. the goal is to make sure it is stable, representative, rule of law-based with a cultural component so we create allies not enemies and we can be safer. we can for the sake of political correctness allow a situation to evolve where it endangers the lives of our fellow citizens. it is a careful balance. many of us would argue that weaver erred on the side of being politically correct. i think chairman of the homeland security committee has seen that on several occasions. that the evidence was there, but we were very reluctant to pursue it further because of fear of charges of being discriminatory in one way or another. we don t do any favor to muslim americans, thousands of whom serve honorably in our military, by refusing to call
young people, demanding more rights. the united states stands for democracy. we stand for human rights and freedom. we want to see an orderly transition. we want to see the process that has begun realized concrete steps that will lead to constitutional reform. the establishment of a set of political laws and regulations that will end in a free and fair election for a new president. the united states is not like any other country from the outside, making the decisions. but we are very clear, no violence by the government. peaceful protests. orderly transition. we know the outcomes we seek. greta: two issues with that. the protesters they are not anxious to have this orderly transition. they want orderly, they want it now. they don t want president mubarak to be in office until