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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (113894)9/4/2003 2:32:01 PM
From: frankw1900  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
This is defective:

The War Party sees the cause-and-effect as linear:
A causes B, which causes C:
They hate us, so they attack us, so we attack them. No blame attaches to us, because all our violence is reactive and defensive.

And this is defective:

The Peace Party sees the cause-and-effect as circular:
A causes B, B causes A, repeat endlessly:
We attack them, they attack us back, we attack them again, they attack us again. The blame cannot be heaped on any one side; it's a cycle of violence, perpetuated by both sides exclusively blaming the Other, and both sides habitually seeking violent solutions to problems.

Both propositions are untrue. And so is this:

The War Party rejects self-examination as defeatism, while the Peace Party thinks self-examination is necessary for the war to be won.

All three propositions are defective either as statements of fact or as description.

As partisan generalizations for the purpose of generating ill feeling they are superb.
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