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[victor steinbok]

BTW, Hirschbein's "plain English" is no substitute for Churchill's
original. He simply failed to understand the quote that he based his
whole hyperventilating tirade on. In that context, what's a little
perversion of a common idiom!

VS-)

On 8/6/11, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
...
> To show what I mean by "insane," here is the complete context:
>
> "[Winston Churchill said the following about the H-bomb and the policy
> of "mutually assured destruction":] 'By a process of sublime irony, [we]
> have reached a state where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and
> survival the twin brother of annihilation.'
>
> "Philosophers are a little touchy about language and logic:  eloquence
> is no substitute for dubious reasoning. In plain English, Churchill and the
> others are saying: _To reduce the risk of nuclear war, the risk must be
> increased_."

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