First of all, why argue with eachother? comparing different guitarists is like comparing a rap album to a heavy metal one. Its really damn hard. It's all about what you like and what you don't like.
Edit : Actually, I came up with a more fitting one. It's like compaing a high jumper to a long jumper one. They're both jumping, but they're doing it in different ways.
If your gonna find the best, then please setup a list of requirements to be the best. And if theres not, then how you do know that he(your so called "the best") is actually the best? We're all going by feeling atm, and I do think thats fine. But theres really no point in trashtalking eachothers thoughts about guitarists, even tough internet is made to trashtalk other peoples opinions.
I gotta name Mark Knopfler, His guitar work has so much feeling in it, in my opinion. Really love it.
Thank you so much for showing me that, awesome stuff.