[Miss Marple]

That is such a bogus argument. People like that treat military affairs and diplomacy like it is a game, rather than national survival.

[CasearianDaoist]

What these people actually do is project the strategems, imagined strategems and rationalizations that allow them to get through their "lifes" on this wild and wooly world we all live in. In the end they are argry with a world that defeats their notions - I will not say "abstractions" for what pings around inside their brain pans is not that rarified - and blame the world for this defeat rather than face their loopy conceits. Pouting, they draw towards the precipice of an awarenes that the world is other than what we wish it to be but then quickly draw back and clutch at any lie that will keep the real world at bay. In the end these sorts end up living a life that has but one lesson: How to bribe your jailer for and extra ladle of gruell.