Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.From a letter to the editor: "The secretary of defense claims we cannot cut defense spending by so much as a jot. Right. What the generals want, the generals get. What the secretary is, is just another lawyer. It's not what's right that matters, it's what you can get. No wonder his relations with Congress are so poor."
What will be an ideal response?
Ad hominem, combined personal attack and circumstantial. Irrelevant conclusion.
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