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hehehe, I love a good turgid facade of engrish, if your intention was to impress me to secure some form of noblesse oblige, bad luck 
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I'm glad I didn't expect a mature, well-though-out response from someone whose signature reads "Kill the extremists!" I would have been emotionally crushed.
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hahaha, the epitome of an emotional conjecture
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What's the matter, couldn't find a premise to challenge? Anyone can respond "hahaha, the epitome of an emotional conjecture" to any argument. Hence, the rather pitiable attempt at a retort is entirely devoid of objective meaning. Congratulations, you've just said nothing.
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I hope you are not referring to the Jews expulsion from Palestine in biblical times? I would think it was more a matter of coercion rather than maturity. I am well aware of Likud's intransigency, i don't expect them to make a mature decision, a peaceful resolution lies when Sharon is rotting in a Belgium prison.
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No, I'm not. I'm referring to the fact that you don't see the Souix strapping bombs to themselves and blowing themselves up in downtown LA. Sometimes, you just have to accept that history has changed. We don't make the ludicrous demand that all non-indiginous residents of the American supercontinent depart.
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Rather than pursuing these potential gains, the Israeli government choose to propagate the cycle of violence on the credulous belief in that they can emerge victorious through vehement combat. Quite clearly, this mode of operation will only result in a pyrrhic victory
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Israel's hands are tied. If they do not respond to terrorism with all necessary means, then terrorism is legitimized as a means of obtaining political redress. The implications of such a course of action would be so catastrophic not only for Israel, but for the rest of the world, that to even consider it a realistic option is an act of lunacy.
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sigh; Assuming the Israeli government's objective is “peace” and given their dogmatic belief that fighting terrorism with terrorism is a fait accompli, one has to conclude that the governments major sine qua non; state sponsored terrorism, in the name of defense, is fundamentally flawed
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Classifying Israeli military activities as "terrorism" is a rather pathetic attempt to garner emotional support for your cause. To define the term as such makes a rational discussion of the matters at hand impossible, because it prevents us from making important distinctions between the intent, means, and objectives of the activity. To address your specific claims that your proposed course of reasoning is somehow analagous to mine, I'm afraid it simply does not follow. Anyone who honestly believes that the appeasement of terrorists will reduce violence over a long enough timeline is suffering from a serious case of intellectual myopia.
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It was quite cerebral, but i can see how you could of misconstrued it's captious premise
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No, it really wasn't. It was a very weak attempt to be clever, and it contained no insight or truth of any kind. It was, in fact, quite a waste of your and my time.
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Well done arbiter, you can speak english. I suggest you carefully cogitate your next post, maybe then it could be harder than substituting a single word to completely reverse each scenario |
The substitution of words is not a reliable method for the refutation of arguments, since it fails to maintain the relationships between the pertinent terms in a discussion. Of course, I'm sure you already knew that.
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That's what was in mine, since I have to write any long posts in notepad. For some reason, when I type in the reply box each character takes about 2 seconds to appear on the screen. It's probably something wrong with my security settings, or some garbage like that. Oh, and by the way, if you feel the need to tell me why my political views are irrational or immoral, please don't hijack this thread to do so. Just visit the politics forum and post in the same thread where I posted that. 
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What's under your CTRL V?
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