[willyboyishere]

To add, what I always assumed that
the "translation" of R.A.A. implied that
the speaker in question was posing his argument
or contention in terms that grossly oversimplified
the facts, and in so doing, reduced them to absurdity.
Like saying for example that we are in Iraq "for oil".

[ccmay]

what I always assumed that the "translation" of R.A.A. implied that the speaker in question was posing his argument or contention in terms that grossly oversimplified the facts, and in so doing, reduced them to absurdity. Like saying for example that we are in Iraq "for oil".

I think that is an example of the logical fallacy of the hasty generalization, or perhaps the fallacy of circumstantial ad hominem or the fallacy of the single cause. Or maybe all three, and more besides. There is an astonishing number of logical fallacies that people are prone to.

-ccm