would have these dictators who would put these types of protests down by stepping on people s next. right. now you have a new genre of democracy. you have weak leadership and i mean the whole spectrum of what s going on in the middle east changing. so it s a real genre shift of crisis that s happening. the romney comments really was insensitive to that kind of genre shift. and really painted the situation in black and white. when the spectrum is completely different. this point about it no longer being black and white. i wanted to look at these images out of libya that i found particularly gripping. we ve seen all of the protests i am amgs but there were also images saying they stood with and thought of this diplomat as their friend. chris stevens was a friend to all libyans. the idea that libya apologizes for this moment. it immediately makes more complex the circumstance. how do we now, after having dealt with all these years with