JOG wrote:
> paul c wrote:
>
>>Marshall Spight wrote:
>>
>>>...
>>>I still don't like name-calling, though. I still think it's
>>>intellectually
>>>unnecessary, and I still think ad-hominem reasoning is
>>>logically invalid.
>>>...
>>
>>A grand comparison compared to narrow db interests I'll admit, but WWII,
>>at least part of it, might not have happened if Neville Chamberlain had
>>been into ad-hominem logic instead of religious politeness. [snip]
>
> This is a ludicrous over-simplification.
The german military command were ready to cut Hitler's throat when he
re-occupied the Rheinland. They were simply waiting for France and
England to present a credible threat in response to Hitler's foolish
provocation. France and England were too polite to respond.
Received on Thu Apr 20 2006 - 21:55:35 CDT
