i want to thank the jamestown foundation for inviting me. i want to plug the militant leadership monitor publication. i highly recommend it. one of the best publications for following terrorism available anywhere in the world today. i also want to say it's a great pleasure to be here with gary sick, one of the most foremost experts on the middle east and on american policy in the middle east. and as we think about how to deal with the winter of arab discontent and the spring of arab revolutions is seminal works on the iranian revolution and americans' response to it are well worth taking another look at. we have seen remarkable events in the last 100 days in the arab world. first in tunisia, then in egypt, now libya, yemen, bahrain, syria and i could go on and on. there is a full day's worth of discussions here. i'm going to focus, though, on the impact of egypt, on events in egypt and on what they mean for american foreign policy. i should begin by saying a word about the title. stability is, of course, is the "s" word to egyptian revolutio

i want to thank the jamestown foundation for inviting me. i want to plug the militant leadership monitor publication. i highly recommend it. one of the best publications for following terrorism available anywhere in the world today. i also want to say it's a great pleasure to be here with gary sick, one of the most foremost experts on the middle east and on american policy in the middle east. and as we think about how to deal with the winter of arab discontent and the spring of arab revolutions is seminal works on the iranian revolution and americans' response to it are well worth taking another look at. we have seen remarkable events in the last 100 days in the arab world. first in tunisia, then in egypt, now libya, yemen, bahrain, syria and i could go on and on. there is a full day's worth of discussions here. i'm going to focus, though, on the impact of egypt, on events in egypt and on what they mean for american foreign policy. i should begin by saying a word about the title. stability is, of course, is the "s" word to egyptian revolutio

i want to thank the jamestown foundation for inviting me. i want to plug the militant leadership monitor publication. i highly recommend it. one of the best publications for following terrorism available anywhere in the world today. i also want to say it's a great pleasure to be here with gary sick, one of the most foremost experts on the middle east and on american policy in the middle east. and as we think about how to deal with the winter of arab discontent and the spring of arab revolutions is seminal works on the iranian revolution and americans' response to it are well worth taking another look at. we have seen remarkable events in the last 100 days in the arab world. first in tunisia, then in egypt, now libya, yemen, bahrain, syria and i could go on and on. there is a full day's worth of discussions here. i'm going to focus, though, on the impact of egypt, on events in egypt and on what they mean for american foreign policy. i should begin by saying a word about the title. stability is, of course, is the "s" word to egyptian revolutio

we came as indentured certify vanlts just like whites did and the people of jamestown were starving until black folks came there in 1619 and showed them how to grow tobacco. any time y google it, because we're in that age. do you know in 1624 euro and isabella johnson had their first child. it wasn't out of wedlock, they were married. william tucker, 1624. i want you to know that we are just full of myths. we are full of myths and we bought them all and what we have do is to say that we're not going to deal with it. how many -- who told the colonies that the british were coming? no, no, that was the first person killed in 1770 but who rode off and told the british was coming. paul revere. nothing could be further from the truth. ever heard of israel bizle. he run 346 miles on horse back from boston to philadelphia to warn not just boston, but all of the colonies in that upper area about the parish were coming. in other words, there are stories that made america and there are stories that america made up. you hear what i just said? there are stories that made america and there are stories

but, after some tender loving care at a special rehalitation center in the tiny town of jamestown betweensacramento and fresno, shorty is clearly back on his feet again. >> well, we were raised in a ranching background around cattle and horses our entire ves, and it's just something that we love to do naturally. i come from a rodeo background where that's what i did growing up. we'd trel everywhere, and you create a bond with your horse. and when your hor gs injure you need that horse back. and this was just a great way to help get these performance horses back into action. >> your eyes do not deceive you. that is a horse having a spa treatment, comple with jets and pumps. but this is no luxury session for four-legged animals. for one thing, this piece of equipment, known as a hydro therapy spa, uses ice cold water. it's designed to prent and heal all kinds of leg injuries by reducing inflammation and improving circulation. >> right now, the horse is standing in 35-degree water. there's a heavy concentration of epsom and sea salts in this water to draw whatever we can out of the legs, any

i'd like to thank glenn hubbard and the jamestown foundation for inviting me to be here today.'s a pleasure because i think i have a great panel and also a very important topic as we all look at what's happening in egypt, tunisia, syria, libya and other places. i think one of the key questions on all of our minds are what about the issue, the people in the region, the new power players, we heard earlier maybe it was bruce gusev is it iran, egypt and iraq will they be the three big power players so today the topic is iran as we look at the gcc and we have a lot of expertise next to me on iran and saudi arabia and also i hope they will touch on the issue of the sectarian divide because we can't really think about the region and the specific week in the gcc as we've seen from iran without also paying some attention to the shia divide. so with that, i will ask why really to think for being here he took the red flight from san diego so thanks for making the extra effort to be here and i will turn it over. >> having three hours of sleep on the plan. okay, thanks very much to plan and

thank you for the jamestown foundation for inviting me. is a pleasure to be year. -- it is a pleasure to be here. thank you for coming. before i start, i would like to say something. it has not been easy preparing this paper. it all depended on whether gaddafi folded. in the beginning, the only a few people believed that colonel gaddafi could stay for long. the two countries bordering egypt, the regime fell quickly and. -- fell quickly. in egypt, the regime of president mubarak felony few weeks. -- fell in a few weeks. he was not only facing an internal rebellion, he was facing the whole world, including the mighty army of the u.s., britain, and france. we are in the third month of the libyan crisis and gaddafi has managed to stay in power. he may fall indeed as the american government hope he will do. gaddafi has managed to weather the storm and has lasted almost 43 years in power. can he manage but he did in the 1980's and 1990's? we will see. in this paper, i will try to point out some strengths and weaknesses and the gaddafi regime. i

thank you for the jamestown foundation for inviting me. is a pleasure to be year. -- it is a pleasure to be here. thank you for coming. before i start, i would like to say something. it has not bee easy preparing this paper. itll depended on whether gaddafi folded. in the beginning, the only a few people believed tt colonel gaddafi could stay for long. the two countries bordering egypt,he regime fell quickly and. -- fell quickly. in egypt, the regime of president mubarak felony few weeks. -- fell in a few weeks. he was not only facing an internal rebellion, he was facing the whole world, including the mighty army of the u.s., britain, and france. we are in the third month of the libyan crisis and gaddafi has managed to stay in power. he may fall indeed as the american government hope he will do. gaddafi has managed to weather the storm and has lasted almost 43 years in power. can he manage but he did in the 1980's and 1990's? we will see. in this paper i will try to point out some strengths and weaknesses and the gaddafi regime. i will als

on c-span 2 this morning, a discussion at the jamestown foundation about political unrest in the arabld at 9:00 a.m. eastern. on c-span 3, beginning at 8:30 a.m. eastern, the international institute for strategic studies looks at the military use of unmanned aerial vehicles. on washington journal and 45 minutes, naacp president oho

after that, we have derrick henry flood, who is also with the jamestown foundation and is the editor of "the militant leadership monitor." if you have not looked at that publication, i suggest you do so. we are very privileged to have him here today, as he has just returned from a six week stay in north africa, most of its plant in libya, right on the front lines. he is going to have a very interesting perspective on what went on there from a firsthand -- from firsthand knowledge of events there. lastly and probably least, i will be speaking myself on security implications for north africa in the wake of the arab revolution. my biography is in the material that was handed out, if you care to have a look at it. with no further ado, maybe we can get started with gramm banner men -- bannerman. take the podium if you like. whatever you feel comfortable with. >> let me say that i do not have any shoreview of for the egyptian revolution is going. we are in the middle of something. it is evolving every day. any of us who look at the egyptian revolution had better be able to read just what w

many of you might be familiar with camille from his articles he wrote for jamestown.f you read arabic, you know him from his work from the newspaper and is an expert on libya. he's worked on this for many years, so he was fully prepared to analyze the events going on now. we're looking forward to that. after that, we have derek henry flood who is also with jamestown foundation as the editor of the militant leadership monitor. if you vice president had a look at this -- if you haven't had a look at this publication, i suggest you do so. derek's been doing a great job over the past year and very privileged to have him here today as he just returned from a six week stay in north africa, most of it spent in libya right on the front lines. derek's going to have a very interesting perspective on what went on there from a firsthand knowledge of events there. lastly and probablily leastly, i'll be speaking myself. [laughter] on security implications for north africa in the wake of the arab revolution, and my bio is in the material handed out if you care to have a look at it.

or nigars, n-i-g-a-r-s, the word which was used to describe the first 20 or so slaves who came to jamestown in 1619. c-span: how many daughters do you have? >> guest: two daughters, maggie and liza, ages 14 and 12, going on 40. c-span: now have they read this book? >> guest: yeah, they have, actually. and they've attended two readings that i've given of parts of the book. and i always read the preface when they're in the room because as you know, it's in the form of a letter written to them. the whole book, in its first draft, was written in the form of letters to maggie and liza. i was in italy at the rockefeller foundation conference center at bellagio, which is on lake como near milan, and i woke up the first day there and it reminded me so much of piedmont. it's on this beautiful lake; piedmont's on the banks of the mighty potomac. bellagio has the pre-alps coming down to the left, hitting the lake; and we had the mighty allegheny mountains. and so by extension, i reimagined myself at home, and it was wonderful. and the girls were back in boston and so i wrote them a letter every day. s

i want to thank the jamestown organization for hosting this event and inviting me to participate in it. last week i was having similar conversations to the ones we're having here today. i think there are two parallel lines of discussion here about saudi arabia and at the end, i think we can make the two parallel lines come togetherment one is the domestic situation in saudi arabia, and the other is the -- >> just set it down. >> is that okay? the other is the gcc situation. their only related, but they come together at the end of this presentation. you may have read analysis and all kinds of sayings in the "wall street journal" that this is the next big domino of the arab spring. it's leadership, youth employment bulge, and a society that has no way to make its manifest political will and make the government responsive to its desires, but, in fact, nothing happened in saudi arabia and likely that anything would happen. the so-called day of rage fizzled. there were a lot of reasons for this, and i want to run through them quickly. saudi arabia is not like e egypt or tunisia. i was there

thank you for the jamestown foundation for inviting me. is a pleasure to be year. -- it is a pleasure to be here. thank you for coming. before i start, i would like to say something. it has not been easy preparing this paper. it all depended on whether gaddafi folded. in the beginning, the only a few people believed that colonel gaddafi could stay for long. the two countries bordering egypt, the regime fell quickly and. -- fell quickly. in egypt, the regime of president mubarak felony few weeks. -- fell in a few weeks. he was not only facing an internal rebellion, he was facing the whole world, including the mighty army of the u.s., britain, and france. we are in the third month of the libyan crisis and gaddafi has managed to stay in power. he may fall indeed as the american government hope he will do. gaddafi has managed to weather the storm and has lasted almost 43 years in power. can he manage but he did in the 1980's and 1990's? we will see. in this paper, i will try to point out some strengths and weaknesses and the gaddafi regime. i

when the british landed at jamestown they looked over the rail 400 years ago, and they saw abundant american energy in the form of timber, the form of woo d, and for 400 years we had abundant, affordable american energy that has been one of the great comparative advantages -- advantages to our economy in competing in the global marketplace. we need more oil, we need more natural gas, we needed to make sure that liberal opposition to hydraulic fracturing, the new technology that has increased our natural gas supplies so tremendously by making gas available back we did not know we were able to produce economically. we need to make sure that those not slow down. we have the first coal fired power plant in the 90 states under construction in mississippi that as commercial -- commercial scale carbon captors sequestration. we will keep burning coal as long as anybody in this room is alive. we need to learn to burn it cleaner, but at the same time we are the saudi arabia of coal and already becoming the saudi arabia of natural gas. there is no excuse for us to be so energy dependent, gets the presi