Bush's war protects our rights

[REVxERIK]

I'm arguing with fucking morons who either can't see quotation marks or are just fucking morons

the name evan thomas isn't in there, they attribute the quote to mchrystal, we have proof and you don't.

 

[REVxERIK]

He is a student of what he calls "counterinsurgency math." If you encounter 10 Taliban members and kill two, he says, you don't have eight remaining enemies. You have more like 20: the friends and relatives of the two you killed.

See, only "Counterinsurgency math" is in quotations, the next sentence is NOT! That means those are Evan Thomasa words not McChrystals!

where are you getting evan thomas?

 

[Setarcos]

It is a paraphrase of his words.

To argue over who spoke the exact words is meaningless and nothing but an attempt to distract. The sentiment is McChrystal's

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I'm arguing with fucking morons who either can't see quotation marks or are just fucking morons

or you have no idea how to read, and insist on adding things that don't exist.

"counterinsurgency math." -- McCrystal

If you encounter 10 Taliban members and kill two, he says, you don't have eight remaining enemies. You have more like 20: the friends and relatives of the two you killed. -- not McChrystal, but Evan Thomas

See the difference?

 

[Setarcos]

Thomas wrote the article, people

[quote By Evan Thomas | NEWSWEEK
Published Sep 26, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Oct 5, 2009


][/quote]

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I'm arguing with fucking morons who either can't see quotation marks or are just fucking morons

the name evan thomas isn't in there, they attribute the quote to mchrystal, we have proof and you don't.

You are getting wrong every single time!

"counterinsurgency math." -- McCrystal

If you encounter 10 Taliban members and kill two, he says, you don't have eight remaining enemies. You have more like 20: the friends and relatives of the two you killed. -- not McChrystal, but Evan Thomas

See the difference?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

It is a paraphrase of his words.

To argue over who spoke the exact words is meaningless and nothing but an attempt to distract. The sentiment is McChrystal's

"counterinsurgency math." -- McCrystal

If you encounter 10 Taliban members and kill two, he says, you don't have eight remaining enemies. You have more like 20: the friends and relatives of the two you killed. -- not McChrystal, but Evan Thomas

See the difference?

 

[Setarcos]

McCrystal's sentiment, Thomas' words.

Can we acknowledge that and move on?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

By making more enemies?

Or by attacking Iraq to end Papa Bush's war?

Killing Jihadists is making more enemies?

" If you encounter 10 Taliban members and kill two, he says, you don't have eight remaining enemies. You have more like 20: the friends and relatives of the two you killed.

-Gen. Stanley McChrystal

"counterinsurgency math." -- McCrystal

If you encounter 10 Taliban members and kill two, he says, you don't have eight remaining enemies. You have more like 20: the friends and relatives of the two you killed. -- not McChrystal, but Evan Thomas

See the difference?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

McCrystal's sentiment, Thomas' words.

Can we acknowledge that and move on?

No.

 

[REVxERIK]

He is a student of what he calls "counterinsurgency math." If you encounter 10 Taliban members and kill two, he says, you don't have eight remaining enemies. You have more like 20: the friends and relatives of the two you killed.

See, only "Counterinsurgency math" is in quotations, the next sentence is NOT! That means those are Evan Thomasa words not McChrystals!

see?

 

[REVxERIK]

HE SAYS refering the subject, the subject being mchrystal.

 

[Setarcos]

McCrystal's sentiment, Thomas' words.

Can we acknowledge that and move on?

No.

Then you're no different than the baffoons you're arguing with.

Sentiment: McCrystal

"insurgency math" a term credited as used by McCrystal

the numbers "10", "8" and "20": Thomas

 

[Setarcos]

HE SAYS refering the subject, the subject being mchrystal.

Jesus Christ, you people are thick

Definitions of paraphrase on the Web:

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• rewording for the purpose of clarification
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• Paraphrase (IPA: //) is restatement of a text or passage, using other words. The term "paraphrase" derives via the Latin "paraphrasis" from the ...
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• A paraphrase is when you take information from a source and put it entirely in your own words (changing one or two words is not paraphrasing). Paraphrases must be cited within the text.
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• A prose restatement of the central ideas of a poem, in your own language.
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• restating the meaning in own words, retaining all of the ideas without making an interpretation or evaluation
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• Information that rephrases, but accurately summarizes, what the news source said. Quotation marks are not used.
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• a rewritten extract from another source. No quotation marks are used, however a citation is still necessary.
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• To use the ideas or words of another person, but stating them in your own words.
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• To put something read or heard into ones own words. The author of the original idea or work may still need to be cited and referenced. See also quotation.
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• ( in paraphrase ) in music, the appropriation of a phrase, melody, section, or entire piece for use in another, favoured especially during the Renaissance for masses and motets as well as for keyboard works. ...
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• A summary or recapitulation of a piece of literature. A paraphrase does not enhance a literary work. It merely tells in the simplest form what happened.
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• restating in one's own words the subject and ideas of another; also, restating in prose the subject and ideas of a poem
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[REVxERIK]

It is a paraphrase of his words.

To argue over who spoke the exact words is meaningless and nothing but an attempt to distract. The sentiment is McChrystal's

"counterinsurgency math." -- McCrystal

If you encounter 10 Taliban members and kill two, he says, you don't have eight remaining enemies. You have more like 20: the friends and relatives of the two you killed. -- not McChrystal, but Evan Thomas

See the difference?

lets break it down again till you get it. the author wouldn't refer to himself.

 

[Setarcos]

It is a paraphrase of his words.

To argue over who spoke the exact words is meaningless and nothing but an attempt to distract. The sentiment is McChrystal's

"counterinsurgency math." -- McCrystal

If you encounter 10 Taliban members and kill two, he says, you don't have eight remaining enemies. You have more like 20: the friends and relatives of the two you killed. -- not McChrystal, but Evan Thomas

See the difference?

lets break it down again till you get it. the author wouldn't refer to himself.

Quotation Marks
Quotation Marks | Punctuation Rules
Quotation Marks - The OWL at Purdue

 

[REVxERIK]

this is probably the most pointless argument. i'll finish now.

 

[Setarcos]

I get the impression Erik is a troll who never passed the 5th grade

 

[REVxERIK]

wrongo. i'm a college student. not a troll either. this attack was started by that crusade guy.

 

[Setarcos]

wrongo. i'm a college student..

Good
Print out the article and ask an English professor which words are in quotations and directly attributed to McCrystal