Re: [Phys-l] scientists are wimps

[Ze'ev Wurman <zeev@ieee.org>]

I strongly disagree with your analysis, but this neither here nor there. 
Now this became an openly political discussion, which clearly has no 
place on this forum. So let's stop it.

The problem with it before was the *pretense* of a discussion (or 
satire) about rationality, yet with gratuitous political overtones. I 
hope you see the difference.

On 4/15/2012 11:59 AM, brian whatcott wrote:
> > On a more serious note and speaking of "propensities," is it OK if I
> > describe Iraq (circa 1980s) and Syria (since 1970s), who had their
> > nuclear ambitions "snatched," as regimes with a "propensity" for
> > murdering tens of thousands of their own citizens when those disagree
> > with the regime? /snip/
> > Ze'ev
> No problem at this end, so long as you don't mind my mention of
> Israel's back-channel urging that the US forge a  pre-emptive strike on
> Iraq - which ultimately cost more than 100,000 Iraqi lives to placate
> what? An Israeli fear of non-existent  WMD?
>
>    Leaving Iraq's murderous dictator in place would have cost them fewer
> lives.
>      Does this pattern look familiar to you?
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