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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: MrLucky who wrote (12389)2/17/2006 12:08:31 AM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) of 541993
 
Somehow, "Thus the end result record for Bush's own stated aims is very mixed" became "(not) receive any human rights credit"....this is the same problem I see over and over.

I say the results of a policy are mixed due to flaws along the way, and the rebuttal is that I have taken an absolutist position giving no credit, or wanting to do nothing about terrorism, or some other straw man that doesn't address the qualification I made in my argument.

Which part of "result is mixed" equates with "no credit"? Sorry but I am not partisan enough to grasp the underlying logic here. No wonder modern American discourse strikes me as so illogical. Here I thought one was meant to go from A to B to C and I find out that A is actually H and means Q. My bad.

Perhaps my argument was that much of the good we do is undermined and besmirched by the bad that has also been done. Maybe that's what "mixed" means, yeah, maybe it's a combination of good and bad inherent in the term. Maybe the end result is not the pure positive initially posited in Bush's rhetoric due to his subsequent mixed record of actions.

(I won't even go into how taking a qualified criticism and turning it into a distorted absolutist attack is a rhetorical trick designed to shut off actual debate and demonize any critic of the current policy, thus elevating that policy to some sacred level beyond question. An obvious trick at that.)
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