No, that is not an example of comparing apples and oranges.
And, no, that’s not an example of a strawman, either.
Also, you are reacting to something I never even said: I never said that you said the case was cut and dried.
ROTFLOL Okey dokey!
There is a sequence of events.
A B C D E F
To say that because a person initiated event A he therefore initiated event F is flawed.