This is not what we agreed by consensus.

The game he referenced actually does look interesting to me and a lot closer to what I'm imagining, but unfortunately, the critical consensus is that it's just not that good (or fun).

In 30 years of reporting on the region, I have never encountered this kind of consensus in these quarters.

The implications for today depend on which of these interpretations you believe, which means that consensus about the "lessons" of these conflicts will be elusive and fragile.

A world in which that were not true would be one in which a dangerously narrow consensus had taken hold.