Yeah, yeah, "MY ego was bigger than YOURS, and I conquered it BETTER too!"

I would still maintain that twice in a row you made incorrect assertions about my motives behind my posts, that your add-on snippet about colleges validates Dr Asimov's quote (even though there are actually a fair number of pretentious fools with many words in colleges, they are matched by smug idiots without any education, "moron" does not require vocational training) and considering the behemoth of an article that this all sprouted from, it is bizarre that I've gotten busted for being too verbose.

I'm waiting my breath breath here, I'm going to go shout at a dog and then try to teach it classic Greek philosophy.

That would probably be more fruitful, at the very least the canine would already understand the principles of Diogenes the Cynic, and would not have much of a use for rhetorical games.

Who knows, maybe there might be a civilized exchange at some point?

Hello, new person ( to me at least).

It seems that you are respected for your clear logic here, so maybe you might be willing to actually give some useful feedback, these other folks seem very good at sage head nodding, but not at offering anything to make me rethink my first impressions of them.

My first post in this comment section is pretty much what I would offer to your post quoted above, with the added question of whether by "staying out" you would include export control laws on arms shipments to the region, and adjacent nations that could not provide credible assurances that the product would not find itself in the hands of other nations or "NGO"s in that area?

If you could reply to that and offer a refutation of my points, I would be very grateful, likewise if you could answer any of the three questions in my second post.

Thank you for your time.