"Okay, man, you can have your opinion, and I'll have mine." And Mike would just have to hope that any kind of future interactions between them would go differently. He knew better than to think that he could avoid talking to the other guy - after all, that was kind of what people did in military situations. Put you with someone you obviously didn't see eye-to-eye with and make you get along. Luckily, Mike had practice. "Truce."