Told you so (see last entry). It's as a result of a two-day debate tournament that wasn't as bad as I thought; although I discovered I did worse than I thought. This, by the way, is the definition of constructive engagement, for those who are interested:

political policy demanding reform: the policy of maintaining limited political and business links with a country while continuing to demand political or social reform in that country.

Nobody's interested. I understand that. Took me quite a while to get interested myself.