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Now, that's an honest argument worthy of debate.
Now there is at least the prospect of an honest argument.
By what honest argument, after Houla, can one deny Syrians who feel the need to take up arms against the Assad regime?
A more honest argument says that it's simply not a core American interest to prevent Iraqis from being massacred: the result of a withdrawal may be a humanitarian tragedy but a strategic footnote.
There is danger in the rhetoric that proclaims wars as just or necessary, the human sacrifice as made in a noble cause, without any honest argument to show that it is so.
Hence the elevation of Ryan — who is, in fact, a garden-variety GOP extremist, but with a mild-mannered style — to icon of fiscal responsibility and honest argument, despite the reality that his proposals are both fiscally irresponsible and quite dishonest.
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Honest arguments are vital in a democracy.
The question is, what are the economic and strategic costs, and what are the alternatives?" These require honest arguments, not theology, and the Bushies have not made them.
Thomas L. Friedman concludes a July 24 column about the Bush White House missile defense strategy with a statement that the matters under consideration "require honest arguments, not theology".
The clear presumption that theology is the opposite of honest arguments and more akin to unaccountable obsessions rather than judgment continues The Times's misuse of the term "theology" as it is practiced today.
Those making honest arguments in opposition to the President's policy should adhere to the reality-based school of argument.
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