Anghraine

Yes, yes, yes to all of this! And, yeah, Bail reads to me like the closest he's gotten to the war has been reading dispatches and hanging around the Jedi Temple a lot--- I kind of think of him as a sort of Jedi groupie, all impressed by them (and by the fact that his own position lets him hang out with them) but not really getting them (the fact that he tries using "She will be loved with us," as a selling point in his bid to Yoda to adopt Leia right there says to me that he really did not understand much about the Jedi Order at all, even though he was hanging around them).