@RIFSoF I’m glad you appreciate the views of others. My experience is quite different. I interact with folks like you because I just can’t make sense of how smart, yet obtuse—dense—you are. I know you’re smart-enough to pilot a plane, and that it must take special... [1/6] [2/6]: ...brains. Yet you don’t connect the pieces of our societal puzzle, to help things along. In your type of case, you strive to be reasonable—but what you can’t make sense of is so obvious, our Side stays baffled. If Afghanistan/Iraq wars turned out different, maybe you’d...