I Concur
…With Steve (of Next Stop Lauderdale) who also finds the sudden Democratic interest in condemning a genocidal incident that occurred some 85 years ago rather mysterious and little more than an effort to sabotage the war effort. Unlike some pundits, I do believe with that the Turks committed genocide on the Armenians during this time period, and that probably hundreds of thousands of Turks had been slayed by the Armenian militias earlier and that that the rebuffed Greek attempt to reconquer the old Byzantine empire was not genocidal in nature but the Turkish response to it probably was. The question remains; Will the US condemn the excesses of Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan and what good does it do if they did so? This latest move by the Democrats in Congress is devious and, in reality, a slap in the face of the victims and their families that suffered at the hand of the Turks during those dark days. Exploiting tragedy for partisan purposes. Why am I not surprised?
I don’t know what the merits of the claim are but it seems a little late to press this matter against the current citizens of Turkey and seems to serve merely as a provocation. I wonder why during the 50 years Democrats controlled the Congress they didn’t proffer a similar resolution unless……………….. Now to the Democrats game plan…………Ever since France passed a similar resolution they have not been able to get “fly over” privileges and 30 per of the fuel consumed by the US troops and 70 percent of the cargo to the troops in Iraq pass through Turkey.
Dave…….thanks for the pingback. Think we are on the same page on this one (again). Interesting is the fact that since I posted on this at NSL I came to find that the US Congress has twice (previously) passed a resolution condeming this act of 85 years ago. I believe that the emergence of this fact further proves that the Democrats have an ulterior motive in their actions. Why condem the Turks of a different generation for the 3rd time for an act that happened 85 years ago while the Turks are one of our only Moslem Country allies in the region providing great support of the Iraq military operation. Ah……thats the reason………….steve
Next Stop Lauderdale
October 18, 2007 at 6:39 am
Thankfully it looks like as of now the vote won’t take place. Please explain to me again why I am not supposed to question whether some on the left want us to succeed in Iraq? Further, Iraq aside, the usefulness in upsetting the only secular democratic Islamic country is?
As Steve (NSL) said, the Turks of today had no part in this.
pgwarner
October 18, 2007 at 1:40 pm