support,ean rhetorical i mean a real bond. the opportunity. be in someas to measure of distress that makes it amenable to some kind of american fix. and negotiating skills. the world has got to be an unassembled jigsaw puzzle and intuitively -- i don't know how these guys do it. kissinger was an academic. how do you understand how to negotiate? both of these guys did. >> if you look at where the president is today, we have a huge threat today. was there or is there that he can carve out for himself a legacy that is better than it is going into this crisis? would argue the world has become such a cruel and unforgiving place and much more complex since the cold war that presented a world of semi-order. if you ask people what was the act discreet and important of foreign policy, the most heroic act is probably that he killed osama bin laden. than that, you have a world on fire. vladimir putin having his way in the ukraine. decentralization in the middle east, syria, iraq. the emergence of isis. the new bogeyman threatening the united states. argu