Widow Testifies at a Military Court

[Jester]

Not all ad hominem attacks are logical fallacies, only those not pertinent to the argument. If a person is a Neo-nazi, that fact has no bearing in a discussion on floral arrangement, but would be central to one on race relations.

All Ad Hominem attacks are logical fallacies, unless the argument itself turns on the person's characteristics, which this obviously does not - the Afghanistan war is not more or less legal on the basis of the someone's political bias.

Kandrathe appears to be dismissing a law professor's views on the legality of the Iraq war on the basis of their belonging to a leftist legal organization, which makes them "rabidly partisan". Apparently, we're not supposed to listen to Noam Chomsky, either.

-Jester