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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ilaine who wrote (41374)9/2/2002 2:57:01 AM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Hi CobaltBlue; It's a public forum, so I'll answer your question for SirRealist: "Just out of curiosity, is there any nation or any leader on earth who is so insane or so dangerous that you would feel that the US, the UN, or a target country was justified in taking his/her/its WMD away from him/her/it?"

Not at this time. It is conceivable that there would be some WMD, some leader, and some country where preemptive action would be justified, but at this time there are very few countries with "WMDs" (which I translate to mean fleets of nuclear tipped ballistic missiles), and none of them are run by suicidal nut cases like Hitler.

Re: "Or, in your mind, are all nations and all leaders approximately equivalent?"

I didn't go to law school, but I can certainly recognize the rhetorical technique of "false dichotomy". (see P.S.) Here, let me try one: "Did you set up a false dichotomy as an example of rhetorical excess, or were you unaware of what you were typing?"

-- Carl

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