dropping food on mine fields

[MalignD at aol.com]

<<Malign, you're still splitting hairs and trying to count angels dancing on 
that pin head of yours. According to mainstream press reports the U.S. is 
dropping food on mine fields and aid workers at the scene say women and 
children will rush out to get the packages; if it hasn't happened already, 
it's safe to assume it will soon. >>

I said earlier:  

I am not splitting hairs. You claim to be a journalist.  But you're reporting 
things as facts that have not happened, for false, rhetorical ends.  I said  
earlier:

<<If/when such a thing happens--it may--consider yourself prophetic or sage 
or commonsensisical or whatever.  In the meantime, since you claim to have 
this array of facts at your fingertips, you should stick to them.>>

I also said:   

,<In the end, you might find that that's more persuasive than your purple 
prose, over-heated rhetoric, and the loss of credibility resultant from your 
high-handed mixing of fact and opinion.  It would be to me, at any rate.>>