re: #32 Daniel Ballard

IMHO-
It’s worth drawing a line between a protest as in angry crowd, signs, chants and burnings in effigy- and a heavy weapon assault like mortars and RPG’s. “In protest” sure, “a protest” just does not include rockets in the usual sense of the term.

Any attempt to be so precise with the written or spoken word is doomed to failure. Better not to construct arguments so needing of stringent parsing that ‘a’ versus ‘the’ results in shrieking freakouts and vicious anger.