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When It Pays to Talk to Terrorists

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Prononymous, rogue demon hunter9/05/2012 9:49:53 am PDT

re: #112 Bob Levin

Sorry but it it fairly obvous what the term means in the context of the article. It seems more like researchok decided to intentionally misunderstand and use that to attack Destro. As if he personally was saying that the whole group was moderate. That’s a fairly common logocal fallacy in undisciplined web discussions. Instead of trying to understand the article and directly refute the points it contains you guys crafted a misinterpretation (a straw man) and handily defeated that instead, as well as attacking Destro (an ad hominem).

If you are going to complain about the lack of rational discussion then it is fair to note that Desro’s article was countered with logical fallacies instead of reason.

As for the article itself, I’m not defending it. That’s Destro’s job. I think it is reasonable to point out that within the PLO and palestine there were/are power struggles and different factions. I think the article misses the mark on a few points as it focuses too much on what was happening with the the less extreme factions but doesn’t detail what what was happening with the more extreme factions during those same time periods. But the thesis of the article, that sometimes we should talk to terrorists and we should have talked with the palestinians sooner, hasn’t been effectively disputed here.