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Don't some people enjoy arguing about irrelevancies !! Paddy http://apling.freeservers.com -----Original Message----- From: marxism-bounces+e.c.apling=btinternet....@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu [mailto:marxism-bounces+e.c.apling=btinternet....@greenhouse.economics.utah. edu] On Behalf Of Greg McDonald Sent: 28 August 2011 2:55 PM To: e.c.apl...@btinternet.com Subject: Re: [Marxism] Gilbert Achcar interview ====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== Simply by stressing the higher number Achcar demonstrates his bias. Of course, his essay is somewhat dependent on these figures being in the higher range, no? But if he had quoted the entire range of numbers being put out there, it would have been obvious that no one really knows how many people died, thus weakening his argument. And as Lenin's Tomb has just demonstrated, the 10,000 figure, a nice round number, was seemingly picked out of the air. One certainly expects more rigor from such an accomplished scholar as Achcar. Greg On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Jeff <meis...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > At 09:32 28/08/11 -0400, you wrote: >> >>One must note the widely divergent numbers, and the fact that Achcar >>picked the most inflated count. > No he did NOT "pick" that number at all. Here is what he originally said > (unless we're just going to, again, discuss what someone said he said): > > Achcar: >>it is estimated that the number of people >>killed in Syria has reached 2,200. The range of estimates of the number >>of people who were killed in Libya in the first month alone, before the >>Western intervention, starts at more than that figure and reaches >>10,000. > > Period. > > - Jeff ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/e.c.apling%40bt internet.com ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
