Monday, October 3, 2016
Logical Fallacies - JFK's Cuban Missile Crisis Speech
John F Kennedy's address to the nation about the Cuban missile crisis was not a perfect speech that had a few logical fallacies. The first logical fallacy that JFK uses is ad hominem. JFK constantly brings up the history of the Soviets and how untrustworthy they are. For example in his speech he says: "our history -- unlike that of the Soviets since the end of World War II -- demonstrates that we have no desire to dominate or conquer any other nation or impose our system upon its people." He uses their old actions to show that the rockets the soviets put in cuba are there to destroy the US but in reality, the reason the rockets are in Cuba was for Soviet's self defense in the mutually assured distruction agreement. He attacked the Sovet's character instead of providing the real reason. Another thing JFK does is say "Our own strategic missiles have never been transferred to the territory of any other nation under a cloak of secrecy and deception". The intresting thing is as he says that there are US rockets sitting in turkey; no worries, he did not lie. The rockets were put in Turkey without the "cloak of secrecy and deception", but everyone assumes that meant that America never put rockets outside of US terretory. A similar trick was used by Obama to get elected: he said that he would move troops out of Iraq (everyone thought the troops would be brought back to the US), instead he moved them to a diffrent country (Afghanistan).
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