Matt's final response, here.
If you need to catch up, here's the exchange:
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Matt writes that I misread his previous post, and that he never considered a restructured blank slate Middle East a real objective, as I had surmised. So I take back anything directed at that option.

But Matt offers nothing attractive in the way of alternatives. He seems to think that the same redrawing of nations can be accomplished by diplomatic pressure, which I find highly dubious. And I still stand by my claim that massive ethnic cleansing will follow, no matter how the redrawing is done. There is plenty more that I would like to say, but I have already promised that I would stop arguing about this. The realization that nobody is reading this is also sinking in...