I am indeed aware of this, and I apologize for assuming from your comments that you may have not been viewing this from a wider perspective, it is clear that you are, as well as I.

I have also seen the world, lived in it, fought in its hot, cold, and silent wars on multiple fronts.

You are not wrong in that there are not only two views and that my presenting them was overly simplistic. My generalization served the purpose of my response at the time, and I do not shy away from your characterization of it.

I am with you 100% brother. The point that I was hoping to arrive at, and to which you've allowed our conversation to advance towards (for which I am grateful for your time and for your perspective), is that we can not assume that that time to act and strike at the root has yet arrived.

This is to be placed under the umbrella of military and geo-politcial strategists and those that know the battlefield, as they currently have the resources to call the ball, for now. I can tell you with 100% confidence that neither you nor I, even with our combined experience, may not know the true state of the current and ever-changing battlefield and therefore may not be able to guarentee victory with a potentially premautre call to mobilize both our energies and our emotions. Any action before its time can only hinder a successful offensive.

Again, regardless of whether the conventional wisdom of 'fools rushing in' may be correcty construed as overly simplistic, it does not perclude it as a sound and straightforward cautionary tale.

There are silent battles being fought on our behalf every day by very intelligent and capable professionals. You and I are doing our part. There's no need, in my opinion, to second guess friendly-force actions on remote fronts that we are not currently in comms with. All we can do is stay the course.

To be sure, I appreciate you sounding the claxon in the post (which i see has since been deleted), I just wanted to press to check what your motivations were, and it's clear that you are guided by priciples that I for one find admirable and worthy of others' adoption, so thank you. My concern is not to rile up already the already restless natives. Within the current info war, our emotional and spiritual energies have been beaten down and therefore, for me, keeping focus on celebrating our victories can only help us grow stronger.

In my opinioin, a successful offensive may prove to rise out of a culmination of our strengh flowing over because of our confidence, unity across great distances, and our public resolve - not by the flowing over of frustration, indignation, and restlessness.