;-)
On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 10:45 PM, Luke Weiger wrote:
>
>> snide rhetorical device, but it certainly doesn't make your argument
>> any
> more
>> persuasive if you're proposing that we base policy on the distant and
> almost
>> certainly (cf. luke's "would probably") illusory hope that the People
>> of
> Iraq
>> will rise up and take their freedom all on their own. i think, a la
>> luke,
> they
>> "would probably not" . . . who knows better -- you?
>>
>> j
>
> Nice inferential counterfactual reasoning here :)
>