reality versus self-delusion

Submitted by Y Brandstetter MD (Israel), Sep 7, 2003 at 04:26

Doctors are usually held up to the standard of diagnosis and prognosis. The doctor faced with a situation is expected to provide a diagnosis, based on subjective and objective data, and formulate a prognosis. If the prognosis is for deterioration the doctor is expected to provide a remedy.

If the social scientists of the left had beem held up to this standard, they would be convicted of malicious malpractice. As a whole they have failed all steps of the process, the observation, collection of data diagnosis and prognosis. The outcome is the mass murders of Bali, Najaf, the bloodshed on the Indian subcontinent, the rampant reemergent antisemitism in Europe, the subjugation of American Academia to rabid antisemites. and the mass murder committed on septmber 11. Those who professed to understand the processes of Arabs and Islam have failed miserably, and should be tried in the trial of their peers, those who provided the true diagnosis, prognosis, and suggested usefull remedies.

In medicine, failure is clear. the patient dies. In the leftist social sciences, everything can be explained away as a Jewish conspiracy, not worth the reading.

The left should realize by now that militant Islam will not spare them on the day of reckoning. The Jewish left should especially remember that. Those who pander to murderers will be the first to go when the mores supported by the murderers reach the top of the heap.

Y Brandstetter MD

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