Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
Again, there is no issue here. Momus has used both "goal" and "prioity" interchangably in this thread to describe his idea. So there is no issue.
Nuke was the first person to use the term "goal" in a totally different context than Momus was using ""strategic priority".
"Why don't you give ONE example of the US controling any middle east oil? You should have many examples, as you claim that is the number one US
goal for 60 years."
"Why don't you give some examples that back up your crazy ideas that the US's main
goal for the last 60 years was to control middle east oil? Can you name one time in US history that we have ever controled any middle east oil? "
Mispresenting Momus's arguement, and thus commiting a strawman fallacy.
1. Person A has position X.
2. Person B presents position Y (which is a distorted version of X).
3. Person B attacks position Y.
4. Therefore X is false/incorrect/flawed.
Momus's use of "strategic priorty" was in the context of meeting the goal of defeating the USSR, not in the context that it was the number one goal in and of itself.