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Yikes! Well, it certainly wasn't my intent. Apologies. I was going with:

    Huh. This was an odd piece. It started really micro and then ... never particularly went macro, except for this:

And elaborating on why it's such an "odd piece." If I were trying to explain the October Revolution and eventual Iran-Contra scandal, this is decidedly not the segment of history - nor the perspective - I would start from. That's all.