Economic forum because this was under the bush administration. and elbaradei said to him, please understand. it s not that we, meaning arabs are anti-american. it s that the behavior of america is what we are criticizing. and this exhausted u.s. senator said to him, i understand. i get it. and i just that moment was such a enencounter of understanding between the two that you aren t going to see in front of the cameras because everybody is posturing. everybody is on script. another thing about elbaradei. the median age in egypt, 24. elbaradei is, how old? mid-60s? 67, 68. this is a generational shift as we ve seen here in politics, as much as anything else. that s why he s not so treated. 30 years with mubarak. we want somebody of a totally different generation. elbaradei doesn t touch the nerve of the street. you pointed out that when tunisia happened, people in egypt saw that. the old media element of all of this is al jazeera. now why did people why did
And elbaradei said to him, please understand. it s not that we, meaning arabs are anti-american. it s that the behavior of america is what we are criticizing. and this exhausted u.s. senator said to him, i understand. i get it. and i just that moment was such a enencounter of understanding between the two that you aren t going to see in front of the cameras because everybody is posturing. everybody is on script. another thing about elbaradei. the median age in egypt, 24. elbaradei is, how old? mid-60s? 67, 68. this is a generational shift as we ve seen here in politics, as much as anything else. that s why he s not so treated. 30 years with mubarak. we want somebody of a totally different generation. elbaradei doesn t touch the nerve of the street. you pointed out that when tunisia happened, people in egypt saw that. the old media element of all of this is al jazeera. now why did people why did everybody know about what was happening in tunisia?