[Urbane Guerrilla]

Don't be any too sure of that, V -- tw is living in a fool's paradise. He can't stand that I can wipe the floor with him on matters of politics and history each and every single time I choose to. While I doubt I could manage so well on the topic of the electrical engineering of power sources -- someone finally mentioned this was tw's engineering specialty, and it wasn't tw, who perhaps could have tooted his own horn -- on history and on politics, I am the more skilled. I am also a far more emotionally mature man, not given to his sort of ranting and screeching in the crudest, most ill-founded attempt at clawing after some advantage I'm likely to see this decade. It is ill-founded because to date I have said absolutely nothing on Barnett's work beyond the bare mention that I am reading it with great interest -- and tw, in a complete absence of evidence and an access of dare I say fevered imaginings, is the one claiming as loudly as he can that I do not understand Barnett's book.

One is rather put in mind of an angry chimpanzee.

Barnett does calculate that military action has its place in the kind of foreign policy endeavors he lays out.

Tw, you are not a sage, and as long as you are constituted as you are, unable to form an adult relationship (a hint: adults do not sound like tw), and unable to learn history other than as may be taught by the Gosudarstvennyi Universitet Moskvy, you never shall be.