The Logic Off Topic list

At 4:18 PM -0500 10/11/01, denizen@... wrote:
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>No, to hear the cheerleaders summarize it, faultless innocent USA

My analogy did not include anything like this.



>suffered
>a horrible unprovoked attack by misguided cowards, so we're bombing their
>country because they won't surrender a suspect.  What's not to understand?

This is a rather gross over simplification of a gross over 
simplification isn't it?

>
>Accepting a distorted, simplified version of the truth, and
>underestimating what we're up against by failing to question and
>investigate is as dangerous to our own proper understanding as it is to
>that of the oppressed underclasses in the Middle East when they believe
>unquestioningly the propaganda spread by bin Laden or the Taliban.

Only what you call a gross over simplification did pretty much cover 
the salient points.  And while objecting to the simplicity have 
failed to point out the inaccuracy.

  Yoonchi indignantly asked why the focus had shifted.  Ok I did not 
answer directly.

You have an important objective that is your focus.  Someone places 
an large tough obstacle between you and your objective. The immediate 
focus naturally becomes the task of overcoming the obstacle.

This is, as they say , "not rocket science".
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