in the future we could have yes, no questions of nikolay's easier.s i was here representing myself comehither senator lugar, nor the committee. the words are mine and mine alone. it reminds me of the difficulty we have in the field of public diplomacy because we don't have an agreed-upon definition. i would compare to our definition of god and diplomacy. what you are describing is also strategic indication which was a much more short-term results oriented campaign bush can take years to get what i call the benefit, which is the goal of public diplomacy so when your country does something or has a policy that seems counterintuitive to the rest of the world, but go there the united states. maybe they're doing this, but for the most part we agree with them. to me that the campaign going on now and it's a question is can we get back into the benefit of the doubt category for many of these countries? >> let me ask you a yes, no question. >> excellent. [laughter] is it possible to get the benefit of the doubt -- is it possible to get the benefit of the dou