west point was having a student conference and we were assisting philip mosley who was the famous soviet college -- soviet ecologist at columbia university on this panel. phillip had to leave the day before the caucus was over so zbig and i chaired at the last day and as i recall we disagreed on everything. but then i have to say zbig replace replaced me as national security advisor. he was a busy guy. >> so with that introduction i want to turn to asking each of the panelists to think with all of us about some of the big ideas that zbigniew brzezinski has written about, thought about and i want to start with secretary albright and ask you to reflect on something that is in the last several of zbig's books and that is the idea that a fundamental thing that is happening in the world that isn't immediately detectable in the daily news is something he calls a global political awakening. it's something that you see in the arab world most vividly but it's everywhere. it's in china, it's in russia. it's something that certainly you were seeing that being innings of when you were secretary. i w