I agree.
I follow foreign affairs very closely, and listened very carefully to Cain’s response to the hit-questions. I thought he did well to answer as he did, considering that he did not have enough information from CIA, NSA, all the other letter bunches.
When one is asked to make a yes/no answer without the primary info, one can only say that there isn’t enough info to give a meaningful answer.
I credit him for being smart enough to know what he doesn’t know, and not trying to make points one way or the other.
If anything, this interview increased my confidence in him, because he knows what he doesn’t know about the mess the middle-east is, and will not go for an easy sound-bite.