The question of what shall be done with the limbic-brained inhabitants of fly-over country will require a re-examination of historically controversial uses of inferior peoples.  Conventional liberal thinking about involuntary medical experimentation may be due for an overhaul. 

The Nazi doctor, Josef Mengele has long been maligned by the neo-con Zionist media as the “Angel of Death,” for the experiments he conducted on Jews at Auschwitz.  It is probable that Mengele did cross some lines during his tenure, though this may have been overstated. 

The Auschwitz SS Physician's Office evaluation of Mengele in August of 1944 had this to say. “Dr. Mengele has an open, honest, solid character. He is absolutely reliable, upright and straightforward. He does not manifest any weakness of character, bad tendencies or cravings. His emotional and physical make-up is outstanding. During his period of service at the Auschwitz concentration camp, he applied his practical and theoretical knowledge to combating severe epidemics. With prudence and persistent energy, and often under the most difficult conditions, he completed every assigned task to the complete satisfaction of his superiors. He showed himself capable of handling any situation. In addition, he used what little free time he had to ardently further his education as an anthropologist. His tactful and modest deportment is that of a good soldier. Because of his demeanor, he is especially well liked by his comrades. He treats subordinates with absolute fairness and requisite severity, but is nevertheless exceptionally admired and liked. In his behavior, work record and attitude, Dr. Mengele shows an absolutely solid and mature outlook on life. He is a Catholic. His speaking manner is spontaneous, uninhibited, convincing and lively.” 

In recent years, research has shown that Mengele was not alone but “was in fact supported by a network of elite researchers.”  Dr. Susanne Heim explained the research in an interview with the Guardian.

“The distinction between politics and science was hazy and doctors had the freedom to do as they liked, so long as they could prove that their goal was to breed a super-race of strong soldiers for the advancement of warfare."

“She added: ‘We cannot deny that the work carried out at that time has helped the advancement of medicine.’ "Until recently, the brains of people killed by euthanasia during the war were used for scientific research."

“Dr Heim's research also revealed a possible connection between the Nazis and the deceased Adolf Butenandt, whose work on sexual hormones and protein belonged to the greatest scientific breakthroughs in the 20th century.”

Is it possible that a captive population of experimentees aided in these advances?  The doctor’s New York Times obituary claimed that he first isolated the male hormone androsterone, “by obtaining 15 milligrams of crystalline substance from 3,960 gallons of male urine.”  That’s a copious quantity of urine.

Though the ethical issues of Nazi-era human experimentation are muddled by the selection criteria: ethnic or confessional, not limbic-based, there is mounting evidence that net good was done.  The fundamental ethical issue surrounding the question of the limbic populations should not be who - the selection criteria is morally unquestionable, but how far we go and to what end should we proceed. 

There will be some disingenuous comparisons to smaller scale experiments done in the American past.  These will have to be dealt with.  Predictably, the Tuskegee experiments on African-American men will arise.  Lest we fall into a racist trap, we must re-examine those as well.  All races being equal, blacks have equal capacity for limbicity.  It should therefore be determined by historical research whether the experimentees were selected purely on the basis of race, or if other factors were involved. 

As we apply new and progressive methods for imagining the past, we may eventually discover that the “Jews” were not a cohesive ethnicity at all, but a scattered group of provincials united by their limbic singularity, as evidenced by the group occupying the territory soon to be liberated by the cerebral Ahmadinejad. 

The Institute For Limbic Studies has suggested a pilot program of mass sterilization, augmented by the reproductive preservation of a small number of breeders for study on limbic pediatrics and reproductive functions.  The program could be started in one or two Southern states and later expanded if successful. 

This is a new field of scientific endeavor, with exhilarating prospects, but a nod towards some old ideas may well facilitate our objectives.  If Dr. Mengele were still alive, it would be his time to come out from hiding.