For shame sir!

"Is this another example of "too much opinion" to constitute a valid, honest question? Am I leading the reader by the nose with my views, since the views are so thinly disguised as a real question?

Yes, this is a barb, and yes, it is directed at Ryan's previous comments on my "biased and ignorant" phrasing of questions... the accusation still rankles damn hard."

It "rankles" you aye?

"Damn hard", say you?

GOOD.

It should. In fact it should cause you uncomfortable sleep, inform your night terrors, and require the application of cold cloths and warm milk just to arrive at a state of unease.

And why?

To describe the response - the inherent right to self preservation of a dear ally to the US - to murderous attacks as that of "rubbing" innocents "face in the dirt" was not, as you claim, a simple opinion driven interrogative; but rather words meant to incite. You advocate your case here as the instigation of a discussion, but the truth behind such venomous language was in fact the instigation of a verbal riot. In short, plain English, you went looking for a fight ... and found one.

And as if this rouse was not enough, you followed up your insults with gross, ghastly satire not fit for man nor beast! Even in jest to suggest the lone nation of Jews "fire up the ovens and gas chambers" as they seek to remedy national security concerns, in order to thrust after your lackadaisical perry, is beneath that of even the shallowest of authors.

To say I found it in bad taste is to describe Anne Boleyn as a mere home wrecker.

And I am both dismayed and distraught that you, my friend, a man of good conscience and moral character have, to date, not retracted such a vile line of dialogue. And I have no doubt that as such your inaction will inform my posts here forward as flippant, cross, and down right disagreeable, and will remain so until such time as you return from this leave of your senses, offering the required regret upon the alter of civilized discourse.

I never thought us Marques of Queensbury, but for the love of God I thought us above Holocaust jokes in an attempt to make one's point.

I am confident that years on in our lineage some affable fellow with above average intelligence will have cause to take up our little blog. To explore what "great grandfather" thought about the times in which he lived, those marvelous, historic years of ought-seven and on. And will you, sitting next to St. Peter, not bristle at the idea of your descendant eyeing such character robbing prose absent retraction by your hand? For doubt not, these words, for better or worse, will be with us always ... and I assign yours described here, to the latter.