Re: Test Your Reading Comprehension On This, Cyrus
 

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But I've always found his political writing virtually unreadable and indecipherable. The present citation is no exception.

So I guess I fail the reading comprehension test. What, exactly, do you think Buckley is saying here?

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He's just quoting another's writing;-)

Seriously, I had to look up "tendentious," "apostasis," and "apodictic" on www.dictionary.com . It was a worthwhile experience;-)

I'll say one thing: we see a great many tendentious posts on the 2+2 politics forum [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Re: Test Your Reading Comprehension On This, Cyrus
 

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I'll say one thing: we see a great many tendentious posts on the 2+2 politics forum [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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That's an apodictic statement if I ever heard one.

Re: Bunch of good news from Iraq
 

I bet you are frothing at the mouth waiting for the death toll to hit 3000 so you can throw another party like you did at 2000 and 1000.

Re: The future of semi-stable democracies like \"New Iraq\"
 

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"damn" US troops ??

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Saddam Hussein as the "best option" to hold the region together?

[/ QUOTE ] Yep. Think about it for a moment.

Washington used to rely for stability on tinpot dictators for close to fufty years. There were no moral qualms, then, as I recall.

MMMMMM\'s happy typing
 

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I had to look up "tendentious," "apostasis," and "apodictic".

[/ QUOTE ] I had to look up only the first.

It's glossological, you wouldn't understand.

Proof-proof
 

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That's an apodictic statement if I ever heard one.

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In order to make an apodictic statement, one would have to provide some apodixis, even if it's supposed to be self-evident.

MMMMMM could not provide an apodixis for his claims if his life depended on it. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

Grand ol\' party
 

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I bet you are ... waiting for the death toll to hit 3000 so you can throw another party like you did at 2000 and 1000.

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Where was that party? I was not invited.

...Oh you mean the coffin-arrival welcoming ceremonies? I thought those things were off, as being "un-patriotic"!

Re: Test Your Reading Comprehension On This, Cyrus
 

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Seriously, I had to look up "tendentious," "apostasis," and "apodictic" on www.dictionary.com . It was a worthwhile experience;-)


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Er, I meant "protasis", not "apostasis." ;-) ;-) ;-)