On 1: Your claim that I didn’t ask the question about « full fledged » is literally self-contradictory: you quote the very question I asked. Somehow, you seem either to be ignoring or evading the fact that his post was obviously aimed at me (read the last line) but that it didn’t address the issue I raised in the question I asked–which you have quoted, but which you bizarrely assert I didn’t ask.

I said Clarke deferred an answer. I don’t need to « know what’s on his mind » to say that. I just need to know that he didn’t answer the question–which is http://www.loan-on.com/payday-loans-mo/ evident to anyone who can see the page and read what is (or isn’t) on it.

On 3: Looking over his post, I note that he asked for citations in the plural. Looking over your post, I note you don’t address that obvious fact in any form.

On 4: This is a textbook case of begging the question. Obviously, I don’t think my charges are « unfair. » I think they’re fair and relevant. And I haven’t quite seen what is unfair or irrelevant about insisting that a person who is criticizing me respond to what I have said rather than criticize what I have said, change the subject, and insist that I now discuss the subject *he* has raised.

The absurd irony is that so far, no one has been able to answer my original question: In what way was Al Qaeda less than fully fledged in 1996 if that was the year that it declared war against the US? (suite…)