Dave Tahija
location: Butte, Montana, en route from San Francisco to Juneau
listening to: Train - Save me, San Francisco
registered: 1999.12.27
posts: 261
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Here's a quote from your post:"This country (USA) blockades Cuba and has for decades without even one rocket being fired from Cuba upon American soil."This is a clear conflation of the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba with the Israeli naval blockade against Gaza, plus a redefinition of "embargo" as "blockade". Conflation and redefinition of this type is a stock rhetorical tactic of the Fox network commentators and sundry other right-wing figures. In the above quote you're guilty of it too.In my post I pointed out some of the difference between the Cuba embargo and the Gaza blockade. Bottom line: they're nowhere near the same thing, largely because the U.S. embargo is not directed at non-U.S. nationals and is not backed by military force. (By the way, I am opposed to the U.S. embargo against Cuba.)You're entitled to your views (although I disagree with some of them) and you are most welcome to defend them by rational arguments. I just urge you to respect facts, and I mean ALL the facts, and not to muddy the waters of discourse with deliberately sloppy terminology.
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Here's a quote from your post:"This country (USA) blockades Cuba and has for decades without even one rocket being fired from Cuba upon American soil."This is a clear conflation of the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba with the Israeli naval blockade against Gaza, plus a redefinition of "embargo" as "blockade". Conflation and redefinition of this type is a stock rhetorical tactic of the Fox network commentators and sundry other right-wing figures. In the above quote you're guilty of it too.In my post I pointed out some of the difference between the Cuba embargo and the Gaza blockade. Bottom line: they're nowhere near the same thing, largely because the U.S. embargo is not directed at non-U.S. nationals and is not backed by military force. (By the way, I am opposed to the U.S. embargo against Cuba.)You're entitled to your views (although I disagree with some of them) and you are most welcome to defend them by rational arguments. I just urge you to respect facts, and I mean ALL the facts, and not to muddy the waters of discourse with deliberately sloppy terminology.
posted 2010.06.06
posted on June 6th 2010
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Dave Tahija
location: Butte, Montana, en route from San Francisco to Juneau
listening to: Train - Save me, San Francisco
registered: 1999.12.27
posts: 261
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contrary to what people might have wished for – mick on May 31st, 2010-
Re: contrary to what people might have wished for – Andrea on May 31st, 2010
Re: contrary to what people might have wished for – Eugene on June 2nd, 2010-
Re: contrary to what people might have wished for – Andrea on June 2nd, 2010
Re: contrary to what people might have wished for – edlorah on June 2nd, 2010-
Well said – Dave Tahija on June 3rd, 2010-
Re: Well said – big@l on June 3rd, 2010
Re: contrary to what people might have wished for – Eugene on June 3rd, 2010-
Re: contrary to what people might have wished for – edlorah on June 3rd, 2010-
Re: contrary to what people might have wished for – rosskolnikov on June 4th, 2010-
Re: contrary to what people might have wished for – Eugene on June 4th, 2010-
Re: contrary to what people might have wished for – edlorah on June 4th, 2010
Cuba blockade? – Dave Tahija on June 4th, 2010
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