richard haas was senior director for eastern affairs under the elder bush. senior director for the affairs at the national security relation under theeledder bush. he is now the president of the council on foreign relations. on the scholarly side. and two men just back from egypt. one, an assistant professor at harvard and steven cooke, senior fell or at the council of foreign relations where he is writing a book on egypt. explain your you have family in egypt. you have many friends, you were just there. what is the looting about? why is there looting taking place if these are protests against the government? it s not the protesters doing the looting. in fact, this, i think, indicates the quality of this regime. by all accounts we are hearing, these are thugs the regime used to rely on to crack down people during elections. they ve let them loose. they ve opened up the prisons and allowed criminals to roam the streets, then they pulled out the police and security