Re: Sidebar...
You haven't got a clue as to what I'm talking about, do you? My "ruthless merchant princes" aren't these rubes, they're the Western-trained executives that manage the oil cartels in the Middle East.
If it helps, diagram the original sentence..."ruthless merchant princes AND wacko fundamentalist nutjobs OF the Middle East..."
I wasn't talking about our ruthless merchant princes, I was talking about theirs.
