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:The false implication is that their foreign policy always helps other countries.

The rhetorical use of the fallacy can be used to comic effect, as in the below examples:

* "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health..., ''what have the Romans ever done for us!?!''" – ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian]]''

:The attempted implication (fallacious in this case) is that the Romans did nothing for them.

*"Well, I promise the answer will always be ''yes.'' Unless ''no'' is required." – ''[[Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa]]''