organize around a principal of opposition, but not where they had the time to create in a sense an tididentity, a platfor how do we present ourselves to the public. they have all the disadvantages in the early going and islamists have the advantages. there is one very interesting change in everything that has happened if we use the work awakening. and that is this was region that was characterized in an academic setting, this was a subject political culture, not participatory political culture. what happened in the last year, this is one reason i don't despair, i'm not feeling easy about where things are, the fact is people in this part of the world today increasingly see themselves as citizens. not as subjects. the citizens they should have rights, as citizens they can make demands. as citizens they have expectations, as citizens, they should be able to hold their government's accountable. what they don't have and this gets to the point elliott was making as well, they don't have institutions that are there that allow them to express what citizens would express. and it's going to take time to