After somehow failing to argue competently on behalf of a patently justifiable invasion, and as its more specious arguments were collapsing, the Bush administration then pivoted with breathtaking enthusiasm to nation building, something so Clinton-tinged that it had previously been held in contempt.

WSJ: Our Blindness

' Though their facts are often wrong and their arguments specious, they have come to dominate the national security debate virtually without challenge.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Unactionable

There is an implied moral critique here of Janus-faced profiteers who ought really to admit that their arguments are specious.

ECONOMIST: Food safety

The arguments against the idea are specious.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Regardless, the arguments presented here are completely specious when set against the reality that as long as we do not turn the ailing poor out into the streets, SOMEBODY is going to have to pay for their care.

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