Interesting thread, unfortunately dominated by the odd bigot.
Maple 01, do us all a favour old boy and buŁŁer off to whatever cave you crawled out from and take your Walter mitty persona with you. I fail to see how an FOA instructor at Shawbury can possibly claim to have access to relevent Int material or even inhabit the Int community, you mate are not in a position to make the assertions you do.
However I gratiously concede that you have your views and are entitled to voice them, I have my views too, but the difference between us is that I decide to keep mine private. You however not only have to flap your gums and rubbish others, but you fraudiently attempt to add credibility to your point with false affiliations to the Int world.
FYI I work with Int specialists daily, and have done for a number of years, but my line of work revolves around their periphery. Throughout the lead up to GW2 there was profound scepticism surrounding various claims made by government, and discomfort at the prospect of invading a sovereign state, regardless of it's unpalatable regime, on the basis of possibly incomplete, inaccurate and altered data. However, as we are all members of HMF, we are apolitical and therefore do as our elected masters bid, whether we like them or not.
I bid you good day sir and farewell.