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Please don't be a pedantic nitpicker, it lowers the general level of the discussion (I realize the irony in this very comment doing the same). It's quite obviou
by roel_v 16y ago
Please don't be a pedantic nitpicker, it lowers the general level of the discussion (I realize the irony in this very comment doing the same). It's quite obvious that he meant 'compatriot' as 'co-conspirator' or something in that vein, not as in 'everybody who happens to live in the same country'. And even if he did, he'd be such an extremist that you wouldn't be able to reason with him anyway; in which case just ignoring that part would be best.
- euccastro 16y agoSorry, I didn't know about the colloquial misuse of "compatriot" for "co-conspirator" or "buddy in crime" (??) etc. I realized I was replying to a tangential remark, but it wasn't just language nitpicking. The implication that the US were in war against the people in the country that Bin Laden happened to be from, was serious enough not to let it go unchallenged.