No, I have not spent 14+ years living in another country. Have you? However, I am pretty sure significant numbers of what we think of as great works of comparative political and anthropological study occur while spending less time than that in the country. Alexis de Tocqueville spent only 9 months in the United States before writing "Democracy in America," which is widely regarded as incisive and significantly socially predictive of American society. Classic examples of ethnology study (Montaigne on cannibalism, or Levi-Strauss' work on universal taboos) have been done with far less than 14 years of living in another country.
Or you could invest even a modium of effort and explain why my examples were inapplicable to your argument. But you didn't.
Very persuasive.
Like the effort you invested plopping out examples irrelevant to the discussion? Using professionals who've been trained to study and report on an issue as examples of why Log is wrong may have sounded good inside your head, but they're nothing more than common hackery to any rational observer. Hackery, Huckleberry.
You may receive a substantive answer after exhibiting the slightest bit of insight on the implications of allegiances held by the commander of the world's largest army. You're completely one-sided here, so you've been discarded as biased and irrelevant. But you're used to that.