and they were demonstrating for a free lebenon, free democratic progressive lebenon. five years later they were iran-controled lebenon. that hope was dashed and the question is where dot other arab countries go to? where does iran go to? it all start thread in tehran when the ayatollah regime stole the regime. millions walked to the street and they were butchered quickly and silenced. there is a yearning in the middle east for this new people. most people left to their own devices, but they are not left to their own devices. the people with the guns and the superior organizations, they deprive them their freedoms as they did in lebenon and iran. we would like to -- i think we all would like to see the triumph of democracy. if democracy triumphs, we will have peace. in a genuine democracy, most people don't want their sons and daughters to go to battlefields or to die from bombardments. they don't want war. so if we have peace, genuine democracy, we will have genuine peace. the jury is out where this thing is going. let's hope it goes toward the right direction and let