DOGBLAST IT, BLUE!!
That should get your attention. <g>
The sentence you quoted, about Chuzzlewit and myself basing our conclusions "on a great deal of study and direct observations and experience" referred strictly to CONCLUSIONS REACHED IN THE AREAS OF OUR PARTICULAR EXPERTISE ("in the areas you cite" -- i.e., the stock market and Chechnya).
Remember, this discussion (?) started with your objection to my observation that...
Any scholar/thinker/scientist/etc. worth his salt retains a healthy skepticism about his own findings/discoveries/hypotheses, and has enough humility to recognize that his word will not be the last on the subject.
ON THE SUBJECT! My subject is Chechnya, on which I am writing a book. I have never written a word here about it, except for a passage poking fun at Johnny-come-lately academics who discovered Chechnya only after the Russians started bombing it. Considering your animus against academics, you should have appreciated that passage.
Have you ever read any professional article I have written ON THE SUBJECT? No? Well, I can assure you I hedge all my conclusions every whichaway, point out at every opportunity how difficult it is to assess the situation, just why it is difficult, etc., etc., etc.
Yes, I do have the humility TO RECOGNIZE THAT MY WORD WILL NOT BE THE LAST ONE ON THE SUBJECT.
But no, I never claimed claimed to be 'umble in general. I am no Uriah Heep. Neither are you, for that matter. <g>
Sorry to hear about your arthritis. I have a touch of scleroderma myself (another autoimmune stinker), so i can really sympathize.
Joan
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