J.B. wants to seem to be some kind of peace keeper but it would be extremely hypocritical for anyone to not admit the average poster here emits about ten times as much as I do.
Peacemaker? Son, you don't exceed 12,000 posts in this place playing at peacemaking.*
Nah. I'm critiquing your effectiveness, and it sucks. You're allowing the Admiral to carry this... well, debate's certainly not the word, and I'll tell you why:
You're making it all about you, Junior, and it ain't, and that's what lets 'em skip substantive points. (Like the fact that even the Cato institute says the Admiral's full of shit.)
* I'm sure that PipsqueakD will emerge from his hibernation and disagree in six months after painstakingly digesting them all.