bruce rydell who was at the brookings institute ran one of president obama's afghan reviews and he was working with holbrooke, with petraeus and clinton and to succinctly answer your question he would say that petraeus was and everybody knew he was the de facto leader of the team but it was important to have holbrooke as the face. >> but -- [inaudible] >> yep. think of the knowledge he had and the experience he had and the network he had so even holbrooke acknowledged that to bruce rydell, that's my source. your second question was -- >> the afghans. >> so, you know, the interesting thing to juxtapose is david petraeus's experience in iraq where they called him king david and maybe he gave himself that name, i don't know. [laughter] . there's a drone up there, oh, no. [laughter] >> but he's very well respected in iraq. i mean, they name streets after him. i can't tell you the number of emails i see from iraqis who would give up their children, their riches to thank him what he did for their country for their country. afghans not so much. in his entry level position in this country was

bruce rydell has some great ideas i'm working on the future.they've got to keep trying and that's what they're doing. >> well, on obama versus romney and china, chinese clearly prefer obama. that is for two reasons. that is because they always prefer the person they know if they have a reasonably good relationship in obama has worked very hard on that relationship. second, romney has moved in his position the same place where clinton moved and has made a bunch of comments by which he would do, all of which are real sources of trouble with china if he moved ahead and did then. so you don't know whether you try to back off here but when you get specific and campaign promises, they can come back to bite you. so romney has said he will declare china currency at day one. he actually doesn't have the authority to do that if he were president, but setting that aside, it is a potential problem. so i think i balanced it rather stick with the guy they know. >> right there in the cream. >> in-house, diana negroponte. are we getting tired it or will he kee