and also explains the repeal of eason is in which he was ousted from from power and the army just bent on him whereas in in egypt already the situation was different because mubarak is a product of the army and the army is the backbone of power and the army is still in power i mean what you have in egypt is very clearly the army ruling i mean it's not behind the scenes it's very very officially so. soon countries like libya or syria or the ruling families in the in the gulf countries and you could use the same formula off ruling family to for libya and syria actually. i mean you have. these elites if one could call them like they're the only state. you can hardly hardly see see them leaving the scene you know and then leaving behind something that's not very optimistic about the future is it really is potentially has more violence madam what do you think about that i mean we have assad and people like this have they learned from the. mistakes let's say of their fellow dictators in the region well i agree with what you've said of course but the other side of the scoring is that what's h

casualties and hundreds of refugees fleeing to egypt, potentially destabilizing that important country, eason -- even as it undergoes its own difficult transition. once the arab league and gulf cooperation council called on gaddafi to cease his attacks and our european allies committed real resources, it became apparent that the time and conditions were ripe for military action. the goal of operational odyssey gone much on the jet launched on march 19 was limited in scope and scale here in the coalition quickly achieve its first military objective by effectively grounding colonel gaddafi's air force and neutralizing his air defenses. during this first phase, the u.s. military provided the proponents of military assets and firepower as well as logistical support and overall command and control. responsibility for leading and conducting this mission, now called operation unified protector, have shifted to an integrated nato command. going forward, the u.s. military will provide the capabilities that others cannot provide either in kind or in scale, such as electronic attack, aerial refueling, l

were very important in financing the expansion of local trade and forming the rows that connected eason was. religious groups, and obviously the church and the pope were very important players. mercenaries and nyce roamed around surfing whichever king or prince would pay the right phrase. all of this should sound very familiar because again it feels a lot like the world today. humanitarian groups and so forth you the great universities of europe, bologna, paris, oxford were founded during this period met. they too were diplomatic are -- principle of recognition among the actors. it was constituted by mutual recognition and that is again what is happening today in the 21st century. so we live in a globalized middle ages, middle ages on steroids. so it would be so easy to stand here, having written a book called "the essential american" to say we have -- "how to run the world." the g20, we have got the solution. let's expand the u.n. security council or let's recapitalize the imf. that will do it. or let's have another climate summit, cancun, raleigh, copenhagen. there are so many silver