A Rhodes Scholar but not a worldly scholar

Comments on Jonathan Bonnitcha “The real costs and benefits of investment treaties”, 16/03/2010, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/03/16/the-real-costs-and-benefits-of-investment-treaties/comment-page-1/#comment-104303

I noticed Jonathan Bonnitcha's main conclusion and some of its implicit implications, although not entirely by any means.

I also noticed the qualifications, or the likes of seems likely or unlikely he used in deriving his conclusion.

Having considered the qualifications and conclusion, I am left very much bewildered to say the least: what can the readers get out of Jonathan Bonnitcha's article?

More specifically, does his conclusion seem likely, if I can borrow his tactics but not trying to be too slippery myself, to be sufficiently reliable?

This is by no means to be disrespect to a Rhodes Scholar such as Jonathan Bonnitcha. However, I do feel that the use of the tactics “on the one hand, …, on the other hand, …..”, as what some people mock the economic profession, is not necessarily cutting through with the worldly readers.