Friday, January 26, 2007
Peace! Not Apartheid! Never Mind
This is so stupid and barbaric I can't contain myself. So if only Israel would butt out these guys would be responsible? Hah! Why didn't the IDF hellfire the whole shebang to shit? Talk about a target-rich environent! So the Gazans want a civil war on their own, huh? Is it W's fault because the Iraq fashion has become all the rage?
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Is it W's fault because the Iraq fashion has become all the rage?
You know very well that any self-respecting Cantabridgian would jump up and down in complete agreement with this statement, yes? So why do you ask?
Because sometimes the best question is the one that gets your opponent yoying like a plastic chihuahua on the back of a 1963 Ramblero
the purpose of this post is to point out that it is possible to find a dire situation in the middle east that isn't entirely w's doing ?
hurray for dubbyah
They all are not W's fault.
There is a logica fallacy lurking behind this pseudo-cartesian logic, which can be summed up as:
A. Things are bad in the Middle East.
B. The US (W for Pepe) meddled in the M.E.
C. Therefore things are bad in the M.E. because of US/W.
Now, I think we all agree A is true -- it's almost like sayong the sky is blue -- and has been the case for decades, nay, centuries.
B is sort of plausible -- eg, we did invade Iraq, which is part of the M.E., and we're poking around there, yes, in a (quixotic?) effort to improve things.
But now comes the clincher, C, which basically says:
(A true, B true) => (B=>A)
Surely some random ancient Greek recognized the fallacy of this reasoning, but his name escapes me at the moment. Any help on that, JJ?
I do not believe it was a random Greek, unless Aristotle was a chancy individual.
But the classification of fallacies tends to be done in an arcane language often without intuitive link to the fallacy itself. So let us label this most doozy of fallacies in honor of one of our own, Pepe, who has made it the sophisticate margarine spread over his nuance of a slice of bread
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