Well I could do without reading another IA article but I glanced over it. One thing stood out that I very much agree with. If you're willing to take your time and lose fat slowly, then yes I think it is much more possible to gain muscle. The trap people fall into is that the cutting mentality usually involves "hurry up and get ready for the beach!" I have actually said this before on the forums, slow and steady is better in the long run. I think anyone who knows anything about fat loss would agree with that. Epecially if you want to preserve and hopefully gain muscle.

I agree that eating extreme amount of surplus calories over and above a certain amount above maintenance is probably uneccessary. Some will disagree. I've never gained muscle any faster by conciously adding a couple thousand calories above maintenance to my diet. And I've tried it (wasn't easy for me I can tell you). But I can eat as much as I want in any case so what the heck do I know?

Hell in that case I'd be tempted to go back on my advice and say stick with the starting strength, throw in the cardio, eat lots of healthy foods over maintenance and see what happens over time. As I said this type of program should have you buring more fat throughout the day. But I don't want to go to far with this because as I've said I never tried to lose fat. My advice before was just based on educated expectations from this type of program.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.