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RE: Gadhafi tells rebels to surrender - 3/20/2011 8:44:48 PM

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I offered a rough cost-benefit analysis in post #102.

I must have looked at the wrong post, tweak.

I didn't even see the value of Libyan oil to Kenya.

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RE: Gadhafi tells rebels to surrender - 3/20/2011 9:52:29 PM

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ORIGINAL: truckinslave

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I offered a rough cost-benefit analysis in post #102.

I must have looked at the wrong post, tweak.

I didn't even see the value of Libyan oil to Kenya.

D'oh!

I know this a really difficult concept for members of the looney right to grasp, but there are other ways of measuring costs and benefits other than cold hard cash.

For example, having your policy goals achieved, ridding the world of a homicidal tyrant, making the world a better place or making friends where previously there were only enemies can all be seen as benefits.

OTOH dead US military or civilians, getting bogged down in interminable unwinnable wars, reinforcing opposition to one's goals/policies, creating enemies, wasted political capital can be seen as costs.

If the former can be achieved without incurring any of the latter, such as Obama has achieved in Libya, then the cost-benefit analysis is in your favour.

Go figure.

Edited to add: If all this is still too hard to grasp, check out Edwynn's excellent post (#134) on the previous page of this thread.

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RE: Gadhafi tells rebels to surrender - 3/20/2011 11:48:38 PM

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Humor deficit acknowledged.

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RE: Gadhafi tells rebels to surrender - 3/21/2011 6:13:57 AM

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Perhaps the tweak might have realized you were attempting to be funny.....had you come anywhere near being funny.
Since you missed your mark by such a wide margin I do not believe we can assume the tweak has any such "humor deficit".

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RE: Gadhafi tells rebels to surrender - 3/21/2011 6:21:03 AM

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Wait, you mean truckinslaveslave thinks there are people on here who laugh with, rather than at, him?

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RE: Gadhafi tells rebels to surrender - 3/21/2011 7:35:23 AM

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For example, having your policy goals achieved, ridding the world of a homicidal tyrant, making the world a better place or making friends where previously there were only enemies can all be seen as benefits.

I get it now! You're channeling your inner Bush, right?
Sort of a tweaky thing?

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RE: Gadhafi tells rebels to surrender - 3/21/2011 12:04:16 PM

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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

Perhaps the tweak might have realized you were attempting to be funny.....had you come anywhere near being funny.
Since you missed your mark by such a wide margin I do not believe we can assume the tweak has any such "humor deficit".

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Moonhead
Wait, you mean truckinslaveslave thinks there are people on here who laugh with, rather than at, him?

Hey guys, please don't be too harsh on poor truckin.

Almost all of his previous posts have been fixated on hate. His attempts at humour, no matter how clumsy and sad they may be, are at least steps in the right direction.

Self-improvement should be encouraged and failure is part of the learning curve.

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