Amos, we've been over this ground about a dozen times now. Akenaton doesn't have an answer for this. He either won't respond, or will say something about the figures speaking for themselves and nothing further needing to be said. Then he will, in two or three days, make the same claim that you so elegantly and effectively refuted just now. During those two or three days, he will make one of his other off-base comments, and they will get refuted, and he won't answer, and then we're back at the beginning again. This is what causes the debate to go in circles and why a while ago I declared -- facetiously, of course -- Akenaton to have lost the debate.

Why do we keep going? Perhaps because Akenaton comes across as an intelligent person who believes he's doing the right thing, and we just can't believe he can't see the error of his ways. Maybe we just like debating issues, and this is a favorite. Maybe we can't stand not confronting injustice. Maybe just to see how deep Little Hawk will actually dig his hole.