He has aneyefordetail which illuminates the personalities and political motivations of the changing cast of characters involved in haggling over trade barriers.
With aneyefor telling detail, he notes that the players of the Berlin Philharmonic are, on average, a generation younger than the members of the Rolling Stones.
Several etchings from James Abbott McNeill Whistler's "Thames Series" (1859) reveal the artist's canny eyefor selective detail and exquisite finesse with an etcher's needle.
It's this unerring eyefordetail that has made him a bona fide member of an online community of experts that's monitoring the war and has put him in high demand with Syria watchers.