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Friday, March 20, 2015

"Being Tough" = Being Impervious to Evidence

The Encouraging Cluelessness of Hard-liners (Daniel Larison) from the American Conservative
"... it is also somewhat reassuring to see that their stunts keep backfiring on them. There was some reason to worry that these stunts could damage the negotiations, but overall the effect appears to have been the opposite of the one that the saboteurs intended. ... The reality is that they aren’t tough, unless one defines “tough” as being impervious to inconvenient evidence."

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