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But if that's the case, a consistent argument would have to stick by the claim that the war was a mistake--a position even Pat Buchanan knows to be untenable in a presidential election.
But throughout 1940 and 1941, the overall climate became increasingly belligerent, making neutrality untenable.
I think Shrum may have been a good soldier in this instance, attempting to defend an untenable position.
Especially in the case of Buchnera, which possesses 50-200 chromosomes per cell [ 30] and in which nonfunctional pseudogenes can persist for long periods [ 31], selection for reduced DNA content seems an untenable explanation for its small genome.
Faith in the virtues of markets rests on a theory whose assumptions are not just untenable but patently absurd: People are rational and perfectly informed, firms are too small to move prices single-handedly and seek only to maximize profits, and so on--an error that, for some reason, economists have failed to spot.