Posted on 02/11/2015 5:34:07 AM PST by SJackson
You probably ought to. I kept screaming inside my own little brain “THE CRUSADES WERE DEFENSIVE!” But no one on the tele seems to know that.
I hope most here at FR know their history...but there are a few who I am sure would say it was all just a false flag.
“Because Crusades” is a colloquialism whose purpose is to convey contempt for excusing the inexcusable. Its use is fairly frequent.
What information does “In the hospital” convey as opposed to “In hospital”?
I'm sure bammy didn't really want to say he thinks slavery and the crusades and such were ok. You would expect someone versed in law and argument to do better. Maybe bammy should stop letting his ignorant a**-clown sycophants write his speeches for him.
Wow, thanks for the education. I had no idea. Not.
The English have such a strange way with the English language.
It also sounds strange to hear the phrases like "Parliament have" instead of "Parliament has" and "The RAF have flown sorties."
The Crusades were a necessary response to the war Islam thrust upon the World.
It's even more childish than that. It's more like "So? He did it too!" Or "I know you are but what am I?" Or "Takes one to know one."
Seriously, this is the level of "discourse" in which the Chief Executive of the United States indulges. He must have learned his forensic skills at Harvard.
I’ve never heard ISIS, al Qaeda or the Taliban refer to the USA as engaging in a new crusade. Leave it to our President to out propagandize our enemies.
Which is the whole point of the tu quoque "argument." It avoids the criticism of an act by redirecting the argument at the critic rather than his target, thereby absolving himself of any moral accountability.
I'm willing to be that the "Everyone's doing it" argument didn't work for you when you were a child. It's nothing less than an embarrassment that a US president would adopt it to defend barbarism.
Great Post. Thanks. What boggles my mind is how does one develop this kind of mindset? And how the hell did he become President? Man, did we get f#(%ed.
in the hospital become in hospital
This one is relatively easy. The first usage is American English. The second is how the Brits mangle it ;0
Good points. I guess the apologists could defend islime by saying “Hitler murdered Jews too. What’s so wrong about that?”
Ha haaaa! Yet another Ohola "red line" that has worked like a charm.
“Its use is fairly frequent.”
Where? Have never heard such linguistic construction before.
That is because they are still fighting the OLD fight to have a caliphate
“What information does In the hospital convey as opposed to In hospital?”
An understanding of the english language. In hospital
is slang and incorrect. Laziness.
As has been pointed out, it’s proper British useage.
Was it Mel Brooks who said, in sarcasm,
that we couldn’t criticize Hitler for sending kids to camp,
because Americans send their kids to camp?
How does that answer my question. A little known or read blog piece which doesn’t use the construct that you claim is nearly universal is not proof.
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