Excellent! Excellent essay. Beautifully articulated and structured, with references and quotes.

Control is a complicated entity.

Our efforts to control the Middle East have left it decimated. Or perhaps that was the intention. We will never know.

On the one hand, dangerous demagogues hold hostage perfectly decent masses. Now that’s control. On the other, at a micro level, what is the degree of control I can have over my own coming tomorrows? You’ve raised some questions in my mind that I will ponder.

Thanks Colin! I enjoyed the essay. You’ve shed valuable light on a moral and philosophical issue.