On Aug 16, 2005, at 10:28 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
The _only_ below-Cabinet rank figures of any significance most people have ever heard of are Wolfowitz and Richard Perle. One guess as to what they have in common.
This is a little too much like argument form ignorance for my taste; it doesn't really establish the validity of your claim. It only shows that you are personally unaware of information which might or might not color your determinations.
What you're saying, in essence, is "I can't think of any other reason anyone heard of Wolfowitz or Perle except that they're Jewish." That's on par with someone saying "I can't think of any way life could have come into existence except by a miraculous event."
I know you've got a background in this area, but that background is still being built and it's conceivable there are lacunae in your education track which will be addressed later, and which may force you to re-evaluate your perspective. I'd rate that as being at least as likely as the suggestion that Wolfowitz and Perle were thrust into the limelight by an anti-semitic conspiracy.
Just because a given individual is *personally* unaware of something doesn't mean that the conclusion s/he draws, based in his/her ignorance, carries any validity.
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