and who isn't?

one of the objects of this exercise for me was to underscore the fact that our strategic opinions are always the product of ideology.  this is not a Bad Thing (TM), it's just something to bear in mind.  as cher J concludes after section 1, "I am French," meaning that a whole world of culture, political history, etc is encoded in his response to the available facts.  I think it is a mistake to say that one side in this particular debate has all the facts and the other has "nothing but ideology."  both sides have a selected set of facts that are consonant with ideologies and with visions of what the future ought to look like -- visions of how to get to a future that we want to live in, and how to avoid a future that we don't want to live in.

I'm supposed to be working so will have to drop by later to contribute to the Compass (heroic multivariate dataset reduction Migeru, thanks again molto mucho millefois nui loa...).

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...