His original sarcastic statement was made to contrast the bombing to abortion clinic bombings, in which you poiinted out was an over-exaggeration. At this point you are just arguing semantics.
No, his original sarcastic statement was concerning an uproar of liberal conspiracy theories that never materialized over this topic. When someone mouthes off and cites numbers in an attempt to sound informed, they better be willing to back them up and it would help if said numbers are even close. I asked him to support his statements - I got a link on Iraq the country with no relevent figures whatsoever.
30-odd suicide bombings over 3 years
is nowhere close to 'near daily'. It wasn't an issue of semantics, it was an issue of deliberate ignorance. If he had an ounce of integrity he would have admitted he had his info wrong and moved on, instead he tried to pass off death tolls as what he was originally refering to, and when called on it acted like a brat and pulled the coward/traitor/less American bs.
Obviously suicide bombings arent a daily happening, but the definition of daily is pretty loose.
I agree, it is a loose definition, which is why I appealed for some clarity on his part, even offering up my own arbitrary counts in order to give him an idea of what we're talking about.
For you to require 1095 suicide bomings for support of his statement is ridiculous.
I know I broke 3 years down into days in the hope it would give him a hunch over the kind of numbers he was making assumptions over. In fact, what I thought I wrote was "Your now 'near daily' total would be what? Half that? Less?"
The ratio is important because it gives a good comparison of the level of occurrence between the two
All the more reason to get the ratio correct, wouldn't you say? Keep in mind I've already stated the Islamic terrorists, with their concepts of martyrdom and jihad, have no doubt commited more violence than their US counterparts. Keeping in mind we have our own crazies willing to kill comes in handy when one might be tempted to look upon those from another land and culture as psychopathic barbarians.
Abortion clinics dont expect to be the subject of terrorism on a daily basis. Our troops do.
I don't think anyone is trying to paint your standard abortion clinic as being on par with a bad neighborhood in Fallujah. Although funny thing - I do personally know of a clinic in the South where the employees feared just that for quite awhile.
Have you ever been to an abortion clinic? There is a reason many of them have impressive security and surveillence systems, and why some of the practicioners employ bodyguards. I've seen the kinds of threats these people get on a regular basis, and the presents that are left on their doorsteps - not as extreme as fighting al Qaeda, no argument there, but it's far from some irrelevent one-time tragedy and it's been going on in a country that isn't a third world sandbox.