Anniversary

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Appeal.

[Walsingham]

I mean that due to an insufficiency of wit I was unable to determine how your straw man had arrived on the field of play.

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"Intervention by the Belgians created the Rwandan genocide," [sic], "Ergo, ALL intervention is a Bad Idea™." = Strawman.

A straw man argument is a logical fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To "set up a straw man" or "set up a straw-man argument" is to create a position that is easy to refute, then attribute that position to the opponent. A straw-man argument can be a successful rhetorical technique (that is, it may succeed in persuading people) but it is in fact a misleading fallacy, because the opponent's actual argument has not been refuted.

[Walsingham]

Aha. Hence that rule about Nazis.

 

I have to say that Sando should write some books about Rwanda that ignore everything that happened during th genocide and concentrate solely on the Belgians. They'd sure as hell sell to someone.

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No wonder Alfred Graf von Schlieffen had no qualms about waltzing through Belgium (and they did play some Brahms and Chopin en route, too).