@InfraBlue,
InfraBlue wrote:oral wrote:InfraBlue wrote:The point is that the assertion that "like hell we should not be supporting Israel" isn't a very well articulated argument.
Maybe that's because he was expressing an opinion instead of an argument?
Then it wasn't a very well articulated opinion.
On the contrary. His opinion was expressed quite clearly.
InfraBlue wrote:oral wrote:InfraBlue wrote:The assertion that you and most of your fellow citizens say so is also not a very well articulated argument, and is an argumentum ad populum fallacy to boot.
That is incorrect. His point that most Americans share in his policy opinions is a valid one, especially given the fact that he was responding to "says you".
It's valid in regard to nothing, and as an expession of an opinion is irrelevant.
His post directly and accurately refuted the post that it was replying to. Can't get more valid than that.
And while his view of "what American policy should be" counted as an opinion, when he pointed out "what the American people think American policy should be" he was pointing out a fact.