post," in an interview the post did just tonight, he expressed concern that the president was inviting, as he put it, binary situations like choosing between war, like in north korea, or iran with nuclear weapons. the problem he said the president has neutered his secretary of state. i believe he said -- he said, you cannot publically castrate your own secretary of state without giving yourself that binary choice. is he right about that? >> i think senator corker, being a senator, can be more colorful about this than i would. i would certainly agree, though, that, i think, undermining his secretary of state, undercutting him, particularly with respect to north korea and creating a binary choice where it's either fire and fury or destroying all of north korea or nothing, of course the north koreans find that very threatening. they play that to their domestic audience. so this is very troublesome where that's the only choice. and the reason it's so troublesome for me, having served on the korean peninsula many years ago, is that the fire and fury and destruction of