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Taliban's Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along
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except they didn’t disprove them. US Marines also peed a lot while they were there, but it’s not why they are there. it proves nothing.
correlation ≠ causation
You selectively picked an activity that American soldiers would do everywhere (peeing) over something they did only in Afghanistan (guarding opium fields) only because it would support your argument.
That my dear good m'sir is a classic case of cherry picking.
nope, just an example. you’re not very good at this
Terrible argument. Textbook case of:
whatever you have to tell yourself to sleep at night.
He actually never said he needed that to sleep at night. Textbook case of a strawman argument. You can do better.
I wasn’t making an argument, just a dismissal
Sorry, that would be an Appeal to the stone fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone