Reply #60: I'm not interested in defending Mearsheimer and Walt, or their study.

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As I have said elsewhere, the question that I would like answered is what prompted them to such a masochistic act?

And, I was trying to point out in this thread that the OP, which criticizes the academic level of the Mearsheimer and Walt study, is far worse than what it pretends to criticize. It is filled with vigorously pummeled straw men and wild unsupported assertions, and devoid of either fact or any attempt at objectivity. Ordinarily, to be taken seriously, one has to at least pretend to look at both sides of a question.