Of course I'm awesome (
), this was already well established.
As for Predator's and your points, I see little in either that negates the other. He's talking about what Jeanne Kirkpatrick (at the time of "Star Wars", or, as we informed people like to call it: SDI) termed "playing monopoly while the Soviet Union plays Risk". You're talking about SDI as a means to that end. No societal surplus (disposable national income), no means to fund a sweet toy like SDI, no "gap" for the Soviets to try desperately (and fail, due to a systemic lack of productivity) to fill...
Inconsistent? No, no, dear boy... just, per usual, separated by a common language. He's getting upitty, as colonials are wont to do, because you've driven over in a lorry and put a bin liner in the can next to the loo. What he wanted was for you to drive over in a truck and put a garbage bag in the can next to the toilet.
