By Selwyn Duke

Back during Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, we became acquainted with the
term “human shields.” This was the name given to innocent citizens whom
the Iraqis would place in buildings that were obvious military targets
so as to confront the West with a dilemma: either refrain from bombing
such facilities and handicap yourself militarily or endure a
public-relations disaster for “targeting” innocent women and children.

While this is considered a most cowardly and underhanded tactic, it
essentially is done on political battlefields all the time. To pass
social-engineering legislation, proponents don’t need to bother with
intellectual appeals and logical argumentation. In fact, this would be
counter-productive as such an approach would expose the fallacies that
are their positions. So, instead, they just trot out some
human-interest story, some poor, unfortunate soul who is emblematic of
the supposed problem they promise to remedy.

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