I try to avoid name-calling, but TK's ongoing disdain for anyone who disagrees with him leaves me not caring.

Gas bag = TK

From TK's post: "I have read at least several 1000 books and articles about the war on terror and the players since 911. . . . In my family we read at least 4 hours a day . . ."

Tk,

It's fairly obvious that you're a well informed, even if I think it's mis-informed about some things, individual. And maybe you're even a speed reader. But 9/11 was only 1,008 days ago. Please tell me again how many thousand books and articles you've read on the war on terror and the players involved in just over 1,000 days. Even at 4 hours or more per day.

Your statements about basic information are not credible. I doubt this will help you understand why your statements about even more complex topics are not credible to many of us, since you NEVER admit being wrong or making an error.

Furthermore, simply consuming a large quantity of reading material doesn't necessarily make you: right, better informed, or having a clearer understanding of the issue of the war on terror. The quality of your reading material is at least as important, if not more so, than the quantity. It comes down to reasoned analysis for independent thinkers. Generally I find that I disagree with your analysis and conclusions, or the analysis - if any - of the authors of your reading material, when you parrot that.

You think I don't have a clue. I do think I have a clue, and then some. You may be right. I may be right. Neither of us may be right. But in your simple world there is only one right and wrong. And you are always right. And everyone who disagrees with you is always wrong, or at least doesn't have a clue. I guess it helps keep your world simple that way. Which is apparently the only way you can understand it. If that's the case, I pity you.

For the record, I still generally disagree with you. And I'll revoke calling you a gas bag if you lend some credibility to your statement about reading "several thousand books and articles . . ." in the last 1,008 days.

Sincerely,

Salmo g.