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OT - Coulter
Giftzweig chimes in with:
"Bush's Iraq Liberation! Almost as sob! deadly as falling outta bed!" That's a lame and disingenuous and meaningless analogy. You're too intelligent not to know that. What - exactly - is "lame" or "disingenuous" about it? Come now. Far from "meaningless," the analogy is decisively on-point; several hundred casualties per year is entirely to be expected when the enterprise in question is liberating 26 million people from the worst sort of tyranny. If anything is "disingenuous," it's the effort on the part of the pro-Saddam lobby to suggest that a piffling few hundred casualties represents something terrible that America should be concerned about. You're asserting that 261 deaths in six months is a crushing, significant figure that justifies radical changes in foreign policy and government. I'm asserting that we must consider 261 deaths in the appropriate context, and I'm proposing contexts for consideration. For example, in a single year (2000), "accidental drowning and submersion" claimed 3,482 American lives. 341 of these were accounted for by "drowning and submersion while in or falling into bath-tub." First, you're writing of a full year. Second, you're writing of a population of 300,000,000 where the 341 deaths occured, not a population of 140,000 or fewer, which is where the 261 deaths occured. As he said, disingenuous. It is not at all on-point. What you're doing is something along the order of saying the 55,000 American deaths during the Vietnam war wasn't much more than a single year's total from auto accidents in the U.S., so, because the deaths in 'Nam occured over about 11 years, that's not so bad. Which is utter nonsense, just as your argument is. Charlie Self "I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." Thomas Jefferson |