I have a difficult time finding much sense in this post.
Its starting to sound more and more like gratuitous attacking for the sake of attack alone.
Maybe since a primary attacker here has been shown the door, others now feel the need to step up their game.
In any event, my eyes remain on the prizes, i.e. AGES/SDTC/Flakeboard, WRAP/Ayelsford Newsprint, Japan, U of Tenn/Oak Ridge, USDA/USDOE, Japan, Eastern Europe, HAL/UZP.
And of course that stabilized O/S count.
All of the above, I'm quite sure, is also what keeps our detractors hanging very close to the scene.