If you want to engage me, don't start with "what do you think about the Gulf of Tonkin" and then spool yourself up to "Consider Germany and Japan in 1940 with the US in isolation." You're not having a conversation. You repeatedly deflect. And you're lecturing me. I'm not going to block you, but no - whatever spirit you think you're presenting this discussion in, you're failing. I haven't enjoyed this exchange in the slightest. You've put words in my mouth, you've changed the subject numerous times away from the discussion at hand and when I tell you - point blank - my opinion about something utterly unrelated to the original question, you still can't pay attention long enough to acknowledge what I'm saying rather than what you want to hear. I see your posts in the light of someone who wants the whole world to know that he's right. And I have absolutely no reason to engage with that.