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president morsi to reach an understanding with the opposition. and i think they would support the military, if the military s next moves are short of a cue. i don t know if they would accept quote/unquote a soft coup. but the administration does not want to see chaos in the streets of cairo and are very concerned and i think they were late in intervening and presenting certain, you know presenting the players with certain conditions. as you well know, thomas, the administration worked well with morsi. the american ambassador in cairo gave a speech recently in which he urged the opposition not to resort to the streets. and then she met with one of the major leaders of the muslim brotherhood. this enraged the liberal secular opposition. morsi government flooded the in gaza.
i think we don t know yet. i look at it through a different lens. to me there s a historic struggle going on across the middle east right now. eye jept is the best example, between conservative muslims, and more extremists who have weapons, and more liberals, secular opposition members. that s who s fighting basically in egypt. across the region, there s a struggle for who will control the middle east politics, the culture, even the interpretation of islam, and again, i think we need to kind of step back, stop thinking military tools are our only options, and see if there are people we can work with on the ground in these places. libya is a mess, no question, but i m asking people to not forget after the ambassador was killed, thousands marched in the streets protesting his killing. they don t just the last thing. i found from people in the region they re proud of being muslims, but they also want to be modern and looking sort of for a third way where they re
welling up of opposition from people who were not well organized. people powers are important and that really was my starting point. seeing this generation wide across the arab world, i have travelled with, studied with and really spent a lot of time in many of these countries across north africa. i have seen this ground swell of discontent and now we are seeing that manifest technology has been a very important stimulus and will continue to be. we have failed to reach out to the different parties. we haven t any connections to student groups, to the minority, to secular opposition. you don t know who s going to win, that s what democracy is all about. the big lesson of egypt is that this is the official end of our s.o.b. policy, meaning that he s an s.o.b., but he s our