PeterM, you must believe that the best defense is an offense. So you must appreciate General George Patton’s speech to the Third Army on the eve of the D-Day landings:

“Now there’s another thing I want you to remember: I don’t want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We’re not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we’re not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy. We’re going to hold onto him by the nose and we’re going to kick him in the ass. We’re going to kick the hell out of him all the time and we’re going to go through him like crap through a goose.”

That should be the intellectual action plan of all Objectivists when confronting neocons and leftists. You’re giving a good demonstration of how it should and can be done. Two thumbs up, PeterM.