Dr. Jerry’s rally call view right before this one, I think, is a must read as well.
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/
Pretty much everything Jerry writes is a must read! :-)
My guess would be, this article comes as close to Roberts’ reasoning as anything I’ve read. But, it’s no longer time for retrospective analysis over what happened. It’s time to go forward and drive this abomination into the ash heap of history. It’s up to us. No one else can do it.