Thursday, April 10, 2008

False advertising

A few weeks ago, I was puzzling over the Army's latest advertising slogan: "Like football? You'll love the Army". Now, I'm no logician, but even I can detect some fallacious reasoning in there.

Anyway, in the light of the dismissal of calls for an independent inquiry into the Iraq War and Lord Bingham of Cornhill's summary that "the lawfulness of military action has no bearing on the risk of fatalities", perhaps a more logically sound slogan would be: "Like the thought of signing your life away, possibly for an illegal war? You'll love the Army"...

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