Iran creates international panic

[Urbane Guerrilla]

So I didn't mention "departing?" So sue me, if you're that desperate. Enjoy all the straw you can grab at, if that's what blows your kilt up. But you're still being silly, and amassing a kiltful of straw won't help.

Frankly, I'd assumed it would go without mentioning. When we get done, how much call is there to remain forever and ever in saecula saeculorum? I'd have to say not much. Nor have I ever said this would be "all you need to do," as a more careful reading of my posts than you gave would show you. The process of conversion is never confined to merely killing off conversion's best-armed enemies; one still has to do the actual converting. The conversion is undeniably helped along by raising the stakes of unsuccessful conversion to a matter of life and death, though. In things of this kind, it's helpful to have unfortunate negative examples to exhibit. We won't get a lot of the desired conversion done if we lose the fight. So acting in opposition to actually winning the fight strikes me as either boneheaded or myopic, when it's not actively fascist.

No one with a level head around here has ever mistaken me for a fascist. I don't think any of my opposition have even run afoul of Godwin's Law arguing with me. The people mistaking me for a bonehead have uniformly come out looking pretty pachycephalosaurian themselves, and I'm only physically myopic.