if that happens, a lot of this incoherence and message will disappear as a story. jill, you ve been reporting that the administration is making calls to allies in the region but delivering a tough message. what are they saying? essentially what they re saying is, look, we re your friends, we re still your friends, but we re telling you, as hillary clinton would put it, the foundations of your regimes are sinking in the sand. and there is this tide out there. there are people who want opportunity and you are facing many of the same problems that egypt and tunisia have had. very young populations, very little chance to make their lives better. in fact, one senior official was telling me that egypt has the highest number of college educated young people with no jobs. so that is a recipe for disaster. they re saying get on board or something could happen to you. it is interesting, fareed, we re getting a lot of tweets in people saying, the u.s. should support protesters in all these
bullets into the crowd protesting the sunni royal family there. 70% shiite, mostly poor, discriminated against in housing, jobs as well as the government. here now to the south of bahrain, you have yemen. anti-government protesters marched on the presidential palace demanding the end of authoritarian rule. over the weekend over here in algeria, to the west of all of this, and to the west of egypt in northwest africa, in algeria, riot police crashed with crowds demanding an end to the oppressive regime. now, one marcher telling the new york times this is how power here acts, and in tunisia and egypt, yemen, bahrain, iran and elsewhere, this is how power acts. joining us now fareed zakaria, jill doughertity at the state department and david gergen.
that s what fareed is pointing to. if that happens, a lot of this incoherence and message will disappear as a story. jill, you ve been reporting that the administration is making calls to allies in the region but delivering a tough message. what are they saying? essentially what they re saying is, look, we re your friends, we re still your friends, but we re telling you, as hillary clinton would put it, the foundations of your regimes are sinking in the sand. and there is this tide out there. there are people who want opportunity and you are facing many of the same problems that egypt and tunisia have had. very young populations, very little chance to make their lives better. in fact, one senior official was telling me that egypt has the highest number of college educated young people with no jobs. so that is a recipe for disaster. they re saying get on board or something could happen to you. it is interesting, fareed, we re getting a lot of tweets in people saying, the u.s. shou
wanted substantively. the administration wanted a quick but orderly transition, they are getting that, what they haven t seen is the follow through on the transition. that s what fareed is pointing to, they have to keep the pressure on now, to make sure that happens. if that happens, a lot of this incoherence and message will disappear as a story. jill, you ve been reporting that the administration is making calls to allies in the region but delivering a tough message. what are they saying? essentially what they re saying is, look, we re your friends, we re still your friends, but we re telling you, as hillary clinton would put it, the foundations of your regimes are sinking in the sand. and there is this tide out there. there are people who want opportunity and you are facing many of the same problems that egypt and tunisia have had. very young populations, very little chance to make their lives better. in fact, one senior official was telling me that egypt has the highest number
palace demanding the end of authoritarian rule. progovernment forces crashed a sit-in at a university beating students with sticks. over the weekend over here in algeria, to the west of all of this, and to the west of egypt in northwest africa, in algeria, riot police crashed with crowds demanding an end to the oppressive regime. that s ruled the country through rigged elections since 1999. now, one marcher telling the new york times this is how power here acts, and in tunisia and egypt, yemen, bahrain, iran and elsewhere, this is how power acts. joining us now fareed zakaria, host of cnn s fareed zakaria gps, jill dougherty at the state department and david gergen. jill, what s the view inside the obama administration, could iran turn into the next egypt. they re being aggressive in their public statements about iran. they are, but they are realistic about the fact that iran is a different ball game,