| damkira said: WorldNetDaily is not a credible source for anything other than far-right, frothing at the mouth, racist and xenophobic hearsay. Anyone who reads it (and believes it) should receive psychiatric help.
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http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-ridicule.html
The Appeal to Ridicule is a fallacy in which ridicule or mockery is substituted for evidence in an "argument."
A fallacy is, very generally, an error in reasoning. This differs from a factual error, which is simply being wrong about the facts. To be more specific, a fallacy is an "argument" in which the premises given for the conclusion do not provide the needed degree of support.
Try not to repeat that error in the future.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
