Eat yer spinach.
I’m sorry, but I’m not going to get on the right-wing bandwagon that says that it’s an inherently bad idea to acknowledge that Turkey had an Armenian holocaust.
Yeah, it might make this war more difficult.
…but uncomfortable truths always make things more difficult, in the short term.
Not speaking them, though, makes things more difficult in the long term.
Eat yer spinach.
October 19th, 2007 at 10:11 am
Well, No it isn’t bad – and no matter what the Turks say, IT DID HAPPEN. A million and a half people don’t just disappear.
However, the timing is done deliberately to piss them off by a Democrat controlled Congress, and the Turks are going out of their way to be pissed off because they want an excuse to Kill Kurds and sieze an oil rich protectorate in Northern Iraq.
October 19th, 2007 at 11:39 am
The timing stinks of politics. But then .. the timing might always stink of politics.
Why now, eighty years later? It’s not exactly news, any participants are dead, the people who ordered the action are long long dead. This could certainly wait until after the next election – Hillary can make it part of her fargin’ Inaugural Speech if she so desires.
October 19th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
I agree with you (TJIC), but I also think that this is politically motivated. I find it interesting that the “yeeeehah is not a foreign policy” bumper sticker set, who promised a return to diplomacy and said they would repair our relationships with our allies, are so quick to stick the knife in, twist it, and break it off in the back of an ally when it helps undermine the successes of their domestic political opponents. At least when Bush ruffled allied feathers, he did it in pursuit of foreign policy goals.
Internecine violence may be down in Iraq, but if the dems can help stir up trouble on the border, those wonderful negative headlines followed by nothing but death stats and editorializing masquerading as reporting will come flooding back.