Momus - don't let these thugs get away it. Let me help you out here, I have tons experience with this kind of thuggery. It can take a little getting used to, but it's easy once you know what to look for.
You said:
"Now it is entirely your right to fly in the face of reality and in the face of sixty years of your own political history during which time successive US governments have made control of the resources of the persian gulf their
number one strategic priority.
Not goal.
If the number one goal was indeed the falling of communism, then having control of the oil can indeed be a strategic priority to that end. They're not mutually exclusive.
Further, you said "successive US governments have made control of the resources of the
persian gulf their number one strategic priority. That also does not mean that their strategic priorities could be different for different regions. Just that in the Persian Gulf, the priority has been oil.
Now see how quickly they latch onto key phrases, mutilate them, and repeat them so much that ya kinda forget what you were trying to say in the first place? It's hard to avoid. But notice that in doing this, and repeatedly demanding clarification to one sentence, they conveniently avoid having to respond to everything else you've said?
Don't let the morons get away with it.
