[Texas Eagle]

You're going to have to ask an anthropologist what makes an Arab an Arab. For Instance Iranians live on the Arabian Penninsula, but they aren't Arabs. Incidently, I suspectthat Rush was confusing Iraqis and Iranians when he said Iraqis weren't Arabs.

Ohhh-kayyy, so you don't know what an Arab is either. But you deign to pontificate that Rush is no intellectual because he doesn't know that Iraqis are Arabs.

Thanks for your time.

[quidnunc]

Texas Eagle wrote: You're going to have to ask an anthropologist what makes an Arab an Arab. For Instance Iranians live on the Arabian Penninsula, but they aren't Arabs. Incidently, I suspectthat Rush was confusing Iraqis and Iranians when he said Iraqis weren't Arabs. Ohhh-kayyy, so you don't know what an Arab is either. But you deign to pontificate that Rush is no intellectual because he doesn't know that Iraqis are Arabs. Thanks for your time.

I'm just repeating what people who DO know about such things have said.

For instance, to the casual observer it is reasonable to think of the tomato as a vegetable.

But botanists tell us the tomato is a fruit.

I'll take their word for it since it is their specialty and they ought to know.

I think Torie is right, that what differentiates Arabs from Persians, Kurds, etc. is language and ancestry.

But it is suffucient for my purposes just to know that they are different.

[hg23]

Rush also wrote in his book that there are more trees in America now then before white men settled here, and that there are more American Indians now then before white man arrived. He also wrote that there is no proof tobacco causes cancer.