some missteps, and granted his list of good is very short), and I sure as hell hope the scenario Hools' recaps holds true. That doesn't dismiss the fact that his answering that way was pretty blatantly stupid, as evidenced by the immediate walk back, and hard to write off as just "code" for something other than exactly what his words said. We should probably all be thankful the puppeteers on the foreign policy side seem to be pretty good and skillful.