The lamestream media told you:
Correcting decades of negligence, the U.S. House wisely voted to recognize the Turkish slaughter of helpless Armenians starting in 1915 as a genocide, infuriating the Turkish government.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
Helpless in their attempts to cut off funding and strand American troops battling radical Islamist murderers and jihadis in Iraq, Democrats have crafted an extremely clever plan to outrage the Turkish government, and get them to refuse U.S. access to their land, sea and air bases. By some estimates, 70% of all U.S. support to Iraq goes through Turkey. Lamestream reports failed to mention this angle in covering the 90-year-old terminology debate.
In other news, a new study by Dave Kopel and co-authors has found that disarmament of the Armenians by the Turks lead to the massive slaughters, and those Armenians who retained arms were able to resist the attacks.
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Posted on October 24th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Sometimes even a blind pig finds a truffle.
The lamestream media happens to be on the right track: If GW and those who support the Iraq war based upon standing up and doing the right thing then we shouldn’t be terrified of offending the Turks. Osama Bin Laden claims to have been emboldened by the U.S.A. demonstrating weakness in Beruit and Ethiopia. This resolution is part of standing up for human rights which is what GW claimed was a main reason for going to war in Iraq in the first place.
Here’s what’s going to happen, gentlemen: The Turks are going to be offended, engage in some posturing (withdraw the Ambassador for a while), but not much is going to change. Turkey wants to say in NATO and continue admission into the EU. There’s big money involved. After all, we sent a mixed message with the president playing “good cop” and congress playing bad cop.
In the long run, however, congress’s resolution, even if meanspritedly based, has brought attention to the historical plight of Armenians both past and present, in and out of Turkey. Armenians in Turkey were worried about showing support for the congressional resolution out of fear of retaliation. Our “allies” in this war have gotten far more out of American involvement than vice-versa. (News flash, Saudi Arabia is not a human rights, er, mecca…)
Posted on October 24th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
I was just thinking that it’s interesting how our “moderate” Muslim allies and our terror of offending them and losing their sporatic, weak support is similar to the men’s movement terror of offending “moderate” feminists who want to slowly and ineffectually address sexism against men both traditional and generated by feminism while at the same time guaranteeing every right and privilege for women no matter how petty or trivial.
Posted on October 24th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
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