Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds to critics

[Ken Hanly]

Why bother? Why not just do brain fingerprinting? :) Its a bit late for
Hitler, but it is being proposed for all who wish to wish to visit the US.

Cheers, Ken Hanly

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 6:27 PM
Subject: RE: Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds to critics


> Noam A wrote:
>
> >Well, to take another example, assume we had perfect psychological
profiles
> >of all of Hitler's inner circle. Could we have increased our
understanding
> >of WWII? I think so.
>
> U.S. intelligence prepared psychological profiles of Hitler. As far
> as I know, the CIA does psychological profiles of current enemies. Of
> course, they're wasting their time - just ask Carrol.
>
> Doug