. >> i don't know whether you recently saw brent scowcroft talking about the new type of communication in terms of fashioning a new political outcome or attempting to throughout the middle east. he said that new communications revolution has had more to do with the changes in the middle east than anything else brent scowcroft said. do you share that view? >> it is impossible not to see. it is impossible not to see and the stunned -- and be stunned by immediate pyre-light of hope that goes on when people are hearing from people who are connected to them and will stay on line with them. when those first signals start coming out and somebody is responding and you know there is a voice there and that the voices hearing you, it is impossible not to believe it is a whole new force in the world. i interviewed mark zuckerberg and he said this will be a giant force for democracy. you can hammer me all you want for believing that we have to go big, bold, and abroad rather than let it be driven by such privacy constraints or such considerations of privacy about having to un-friend somebody. he wo

and brent scowcroft had the same job during the george h.w. bush administration. he now has his own consulting firm. dr. brzezinski, are all of these events-- egypt, yemen, add in bahrain and syria as well as libya obviously-- are they all connected? >> they are, of course, all connected in a way. but also, of course, each of them has its own independent dimension. still i think we're dealing with a phenomenon which, if not handled correctly, can either plunge the region into increasing violence, disarray, or alternatively after a period of time begins to settle and evolve and stabilize. how we play and how our friends play and how the international community plays it and ultimately also how the arab league plays it is absolutely critically important. >> lehrer: where do you come down on this, general skowcroft as to whether or not this is all part of one loosely connected revolution? >> i think it's part of one loosely connected revolution in this sense: what we're seeing now is the impact of globalization in terms of communication because now the world is politi