dr. brzezinski -- dr. two questions, are you comfortable with mitt romney as commander in chief? and two, did he say anything last night that would've sent off alarm bells around any capitals around the world? >> not really. not really. i don't think so. except for, perhaps, in regards to russia where he didn't respond to obama's point. but he did raise one issue, which surprised me and the only one to raise it, not only in the course of this debate, but in the course of much of this campaign. he explicitly said that as part of his soft power approach to the middle east, there would have to be a renewal in the israeli/palestinian peace process. he was the only one to say it and i wonder what was behind it because he didn't elaborate, but we know a peace process means major concessions by both sides and not unilateral actions. so i would think that might be of some concern to some of his more right wing supporters in the israeli community. >> tom brokaw's here. do you have a question for dr. brzezins brzezi

dr. brzezinski and begin had the same background, they had the same sort of history even though dr. know, more towards sadat. i thought that was a fascinating footnote. but they got together at camp david, and they were able to sit there and talk about things they had in common, this common history, and there was enough time. you're right, bob, because they were up there. they were playing chess. there's that famous picture of dr. brzezinski playing chess against begin. they had a chance to do a deal. >> and it was a great achievement. and i remember asking somebody, not dr. brzezinski about this who worked for carter, and i said, how did you do this? he said, look, if you, too, had been locked up at camp david with jimmy carter for 13 days, you would have signed it. >> exactly! exactly! and by the way, my dad plays chess with people, and he gets inside their head. you know how they think. >> yes. >> if you know how they play chess. i'm terrible at it. >> that's one of the accomplishments of the last era. >> yeah. it was fascinating. fascinating time. >> that reminded me of a famous

dr. zbigniew brzezinski highlights a critical question which is one thing we need to develop in developing a new concept, if you go in for a little bit militarily with aid to one group, does that tie a string that will put you in, inevitably, in a much bigger way? i am not sure the answer is always yes, but under what exns is it yes and what kind of commitments are you making? these are all the questions that need to be asked with a new kind of concept that allows us to say there is a problem like libya, will is a problem like syria, here is where we begin, here are the tools we expect to apply, but we haven't gotten that far yet because we are just coming off a concept that we are leaving behind, and we haven't developed a new concept yet. >> rose: mr. zbig. >> there are two powers next to syria who are very important and very relevant to the future of what happens. one is saudi arabia. we have to be very careful about that because the saudis are deeply involved right now in fanning sunni shiite conflict in sir, i can't is that really in our interests? are we really supposed to be support