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>Somehow I think that we have more important considerations than to take up such a subject at this time. Turkey has been one of the strongest allies the United States and has been for many decades. The Ottoman Empire has not existed since 1922.
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>Come on congress wake up! This should have occurred in 1915 and not today.
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>How about condemning Japan for World War II? After all that country denies any of the atrocities it committed.
You are absolutely correct. This is a gratuitous, political slap at one of the most important countries in the world for our national security, a country that has been a very good friend for a long time, and which represents the greatest hope for the Islamic world.
What happened to the Armenians and a lot of other people ( including Turks ) during that period was truly tragic. Labelling it with a word more properly applied to what the German's attempted to do to the Jews is neither appropriate nor beneficial.
And, as you point out, whatever the case, what happened in 1915 was done by the Ottoman Empire. The Turkish Republic is a very different entity and has a history of protecting minority populations which compares very favorably with other nations and certainly is better than that of Western or Eastern Europe in the same time period !
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
