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To: JohnGalt
...hints that Serbia posed a threat

So "he thought Serbia posed a threat to the United States" has now become "he hint[ed] that Serbia posed a threat to the United States." Very interesting style of argumentation you have there.

You are perfectly free to oppose Hanson, preemption and unilateralism. I'm still sorting out my position on these issues myself, especially preemption. What you are not free to do, if you want to engage in fruitful public discourse, is assign positions to your opponents that they do not hold. And I submit that a sophisticated and learned thinker like Victor Davis Hanson never held that "Serbia [alone] posed a [security or military] risk to the United States."

14 posted on 08/01/2003 9:19:52 AM PDT by beckett
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To: beckett
I employed 'hinted' as a compromise between our two interpretations; I know what he wrote (Serbia was a threat to the United States).

I will e-mail him for a clarificaiton, fair?
15 posted on 08/01/2003 9:25:28 AM PDT by JohnGalt (They're All Lying)
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