Congrats and condolences to the Ruskies

[MaggieL]

Originally posted by jaguar

Al Queda? Really? Wow, you must have access to some amazing intel feeds....

Yes, it's a very closely kept secret that the Chechnian separatist exile government was based in Afghanistan. Nobody knows that there were a boatload of Chechnians in Afghanistan fighting for Al-Queda and the Taliban. It's arcane knowlege that bin Laden was training Chechnians there.

Pardon me for letting that secret slip out.

As for 'chemical weapons', for which I assume you're referring to pepper spray...

By "chemical weapons" I'm referring to "chemical weapons". All of them.. By nature, they're quite a bit more indiscriminate, erratic, and difficult to control than firearms or edged weapons...even explosives.

Well you did call it an oxymoron. By which I foolishly assumed you meant, well, an oxymoron

"Oxymoron: A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word". Like "non-lethal" and "weapon", you see. It's this attempt to satisfy the "contrary significations" that makes them unreliable and erratic.