On 17 Oct 2007 23:58:17 -0700, sdr <sdrodrian@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Richard Cohen's contention that condemning
>genocide "will serve no earthly purpose" is
>one of the most incomprehensibly inhuman
>and shameful statements I have ever heard
>an American "journalist" make!
>
>Will not Mr. Cohen propose next that The
>United States should also begin to deny the
>Holocaust in order to promote better cooperation
>from Iran? Ah, no, wait: This would hurt our ties
>with Israel ... therefore no. Mr. Cohen might not
>propose that--After all, America's moral stand
>ought to have nothing to do with right or wrong,
>only with crass expedience!
>
>But surely Mr. Cohen WOULD propose the denial
>of the Holocaust if an important ally like Germany
>were still engaged in protecting its NAZI heritage!
>
>The reason Turkey is engaged in this reprehensible
>and unforgivable denial of the Armenian Holocaust
>is NOT because it was perpetrated by some ancient
>and bygone Turkish government (albeit it was) but
>because its most ardent and enthusiastic perpetrators
>and instigators were her Muslim Imams--who roused
>their "congregations" to butcher as many human
>beings as they could get their hands on simply
>because they were NOT Muslims ... encouraging
>their "men" to murder, to rape, and to steal the
>properties of their pitiful victims--This in the
>numberless confessions of contrition and remorse
>by Turks who actually took part in the genocide!
>And an admission that this was indeed the case
>would be, in no uncertain terms, a condemnation
>and indictment of the blood-thirsty nature of Islam
>itself. [SEE: http://islamisbad.com
] This, the
>Islamists of Turkey, understandably, will never do.
>
>It is impossible to deny the Armenian Genocide.
>The only thing the genocide deniers can do is to
>bring shame & dishonor on themselves, Mr. Cohen.
>
>S D Rodrian
>http://poems.sdrodrian.com
>http://physics.sdrodrian.com
>
>RE:
>
>"Turkey's War on the Truth" By Richard Cohen
>Tuesday, October 16, 2007; Page A19 Washington Post
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/15/AR2007101501323.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
>
>"It goes without saying that the House resolution
>condemning Turkey for the "genocide" of Armenians
>from 1915 to 1923 will serve no earthly purpose and--"
>
>I could not read more without getting physically ill.
>
An excellent summary which mirrors my own views.
What Turkey did to the Armenian Christians was genocide and no dancing
around the subject will change that.
Turkey's reputation for cruelty and brutality is an historical fact.
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