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Entry: From the Rubble Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/from_the_rubble#23092 Post contents: Sid, Are you saying that the names Taki listed in his article http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/another_milestone_in_iraq/ are not those of the most influential neoconservatives, and that most of the people on Taki's list are not Jewish? If that's your argument, then one of us has lost touch of external reality. Also, note that Taki's article was one of the few ones on this site to be attacked by trols, who successfully prevented a discussion of the argument. On the basis of logical reasoning, the attacker cannot have been a neo-Nazi. Using the threat from neo-Nazis as a reason to impose limitations on the site thus looks very much like a made-up excuse. As to race, I offered to takimag an article noting that race cannot have been a significant factor in history, because civilizations have raisen and fallen much faster than any genetic modification can possibly have spread through a population. Indeed, Darwin himself said his theory cannot explain the raise of the West, and within West the raise and decline of Spain and the raise of England. (A century and a half after Darwin wrote, one can add the decline of England to the list of historical event far to rapid to be explained by any known racial theories.) Spencer's answer was that he is not interested in this kind of an argument. What this tells about takimag's current attitude toward race, I wonder -- Sarto had earlier accepted the article. I'm still intrigued: whom did you have in mind when you used the expression "we"? Sent at: 2008 07 06