Originally Posted by BobZ

The pertinent question is not one of the 'good' (d)alpa has produced.....

It should be a question of how well we have been served, and to what degree of 'good' has been realized on our behalf.

Its near certain any organization equipped with economic resources in the hundreds of millions a year..... given the most inadvertent circumstances.... would inevitably produce some positive benefit.

Alpa exists to serve alpa. And any 'good' produced in that environment has simply been a byproduct of that imperative.