You're parsing semantics - I didn't say thrust levers were STOP levers, I said that the pilot retards them (as part of the sequence of actions he performs - guess I should have made that explicit) when he wishes the aircraft to stop.
I deliberately rendered the action in a very simple way to demonstrate that you don't need to know about complex real-time systems, logic trees and all the other gubbins that the anti-AB brigade claim you do to fly the thing.
bubbers44: How long ago did you learn to fly though? Many younger pilots got their first job on the A320 fleet. You can't put the genie back in the bottle.