Most of the arguments made use of by the ministry for supporting the war, are the very arguments that ought to have been used against supporting it; and the plans, by which they thought to conquer, are the very plans in which they were sure to be defeated.
Paine criticizes the British ministry's flawed reasoning and self-defeating strategies in prosecuting the war against America.
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