Bernie-
You know very well that "Kruschev is a nuclear bomb". "Christianity is the end of civilization." "Apple computers are plows." are all pure assertion.
That SH was a one man WMD was a fact. I was only so uncareful and indiscriminate because I took for granted you would be aware of the evidence.
Quote:criticizing without offering an alternative strategy may well be a luxurious condition, but it is no sort of logical fallacy.
It seems to me to be in view of the fact that something has to happen tomorrow and next year and so on and also the fact that we live in a planned society where decisions are taken all the time with a view to gain some end. It would only be a logical fallacy if history stopped right here.
I would expect my complaint about the beer to be shared by most others and that it would find its way back to the brewery. If I had words with the surgeon I would be offering a strategy I think.
What strategy do you suggest to the powers (the surgeon) to do something about the war (the sponge) in the body politic?
Quote: the portion of your sentence I've put in red would be at home in Lawrence but is in no other sense helpful or meritorious here. To what leaders would it not apply? How? Why?
Nothing like Lawrence. Others use the word "will".
I think it was helpful in the debate.
It would not apply where a leader has to carry a large body of expert opinion before his will can prevail (the how) as in The Kremlin and in our forms of cabinet government supported by large bureaucracies. It isn't black and white. There are gradations. Iraq under SH's party and family and North Korea are extreme cases at the other end. Also Uganda under Amin.
The why is because we won it for ourselves at great cost in lives and destruction. Others will have to do the same. I don't think any nation has ever been encouraged and helped to win themselves our form of government than Iraq. Who is to say whether the costs of that help and encouragement are greater or less than the eventual cost would be without it. Not us.
Quote:Further, it presumes a set of psychic and future-telling abilities on your part (and an apparent lack of humility as regards the accuracy of those skills) which will unsettle your grandmother and aunts if they get wind of this.
I'm afraid I don't understand that except as a smear.
Mu grandmothers and my aunts were and are very difficult to unsettle.
I will burden you again. What policy do you recommend from here in view of the statement about viewing "justice" from the point of view of practical advantage on another thread?
If you have none you could look like a member of a football defence arguing about who's fault the goal you conceded was rather than on the real business of stopping another one and on getting even.
