A bit delayed, not that that makes any difference, I've read the sequence of emails that brought us to this unfortunate point in this community's life. I guess it takes an old fart like you or me to see a train wreck coming. My thanks to you for trying to introduce some calm and broader view to that dialogue.

To quote the Taliban Minister of Information and Culture, Mawlawi Quadrullah Jamal, "It is easier to destroy than to build". That was said just before the statues at Buddha at Bamiyan were blown up. And so it is.