Sunday, 23 July 2006
Tom Maguire: Reasoning By Weird Analogy
Contributed by Bill Faith

Nick Kristof provides an object lesson in the perils of reasoning by analogy in his latest column, portions of which we will liberate from TimesSelect.  His theme is that Israel's problem with Hezbollah and Hamas can be compared to the British problem with the IRA or the Spanish problem with Basque separatists.  When you finish blinking, riddle me this - doesn't the analogy wobble a bit on the point that Hezbollah and Hamas are committed to the destruction of the state of Israel, not to the separation of their own territory from Isreal?

Here we go, with rhetorical questions afterward:

[Read on.]

Contributed by Bill Faith on July 23, 2006 at 04:33 PM in Bill Faith, Islamism Delenda Est | Permalink

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