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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
No I am not. I am saying that when people dispute these things they have an obligation to look at both sides of the issue. Military successes are not insignificant, and portraying them as such to say broadly "it is a failure" is, in my opinion, a cheap argument technique.
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I think I've got the hang of your way of thinking now.
The Titanic's maiden voyage wasn't a failure -- the ship crossed a lot of the ocean. For that matter, the riveters did a successful job -- only some of their rivets popped when the ship hit the iceberg, and many of them are still intact on the ocean floor. George McGovern got millions of people to vote for him in '72 -- you've got to call that a partial success. The Battle of Midway was a partial success for the Japanese -- they sunk a carrier!
