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* "Our foreign policy has always helped other countries, except of course when it is against our National Interest..."

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

The rethoricalrhetorical use of the fallacy can have hilarious effects, 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.