[UberVernunft]

But it appeared to me that you were making the case that intervention works.

I'm saying that it works enough to be a reasonable tool of foreign policy decision making.

[Demidog]

Great. And I was saying that your assesment that it "works" is a bit....inaccurate to say the least. But I'm interested that you call it a "tool." Can you expound on that a bit? A tool is something that one uses to either shorten the effort of a task or to increase the quality of a product.

What is the product or task we are accomplishing with this so-called tool?