LEJ --

That's the hardest part -- these situations are often compounded of very dense layers of dedicated stupidity, such as envisioning revenue from unlikely sources, or, in other frameworks, buying in to totally off-the-wall premises because someone said so, or worse, someone said God said so!! Jihads, crusades, cults, and business failures as well as political shambles are born is this kind of soup, as are wars and murders.

This kind of blind unreason makes it really tough to cut through to a clear and right-minded course of action.

Sounds to me like you did the best you could do. Loyalty to a profit-margin is no loyaolty at all!

Regards,

A.