Very excited about Streamfield - it seems like there might be some subtle complications around 'schema' changes but all up it's awesome to have content in a machine readable and meaningful format.
"There was a third claim, that the public is misinformed/misled, but I take issue with that one. I think most people understand that somebody, somewhere is pushing the button."
True - though the mislead part I feel largely relates to claims of surgical strikes and claims of minimal 'collateral' deaths and injuries.
" the terrible things we are doing does not in any way make those things less necessary"
What is being done is indeed terrible - though I have yet to see the necessary bit backed up by any coherent numbers.