Was the insult to Turkey just another back-door Dem strategy to end the war?

Question

In today's world, don't you think there are more important things to consider than Genocide in WW1?

Answer 1

Yes and yes and yes. They have just isolated our own in Iraq. Give them a blue ribbon for intelligence.

Answer 2

It is always timely to talk about genocide.It is important to know what mankind is capabe of. It is shameful that the U.S. has taken so long to publicly and officialy recognise this sorry chapter in Turkey's history. It was willing to ignore it for so long because:
1. we needed Turkey in the Cold War as a missile site
2. we have needed Turkey to stay ¨neutral¨in the Israeli(and U.S.) -Palestinian conflict
3. the influential Jewish lobby in our country has had a policy of strictly monitoring the use of the term ¨genocide¨ by any other group other than Jewish holocaust victims. They have wielded their not inconsiderable clout and put pressure time and again on the U.S. and other countries to NOT recognize the massacres of Armenians( or any other group,ex. Tutsis by Hutus) as genocidal killings.

Although almost a hundred years too late ,I for one am glad that the Armenian people are getting a little bit of justice. It is also a good thing that everyone should learn a bit of historical fact and see that it hasn't only been Muslims or Jews who have suffered.

It has long been ignored that two million Chaldean Christians were killed in the Levant by Ottoman government order between 1815 to 1915.

The specifically Armenian genocide took place between 1915-1917 under Attaturk's party (Young Turks). Europe and the U.S. were in the middle of a world war and it was not till after wards that the French were the first to recognise the slaughter of Armenians as genocide.

Another forgotten genocidal attack on Christians by Attaturk was the one that occurred in 1918-19 against the Christians who lived in Smyrna . The U.S. and British warships were in the harbour of Smyrna to enforce the Treaty of Versailles(end of WW I) and they stood by without intervening to aid the victims as they were brutally slaughtered before their eyes.. It occurred yet again in 1922.

Attaturk was a Mason and much admired by his counterparts in the U.S. and Britain who were content to turn a blind eye to his genocidal excesses.

After years of secular government,Turks have recently democratically elected an Islamic government. Isn't it a bit of a coincidence that only now does the U.S. suddenly pull the genocide card out against Turkey? Hardly a Dem. party strategy? Smacks to me of a neocon reprisal of sorts.
But who knows. I am just glad that the U.S. has finally recognised that justice was owing to the Armenians..

Answer 3

Hope so. ANY Dem strategy to end the war would be good news.

Answer 4

I think there are more important issues then to blame the Turks on a genocide that never occurred. In a war, people are going to die regardless of what side they're on. Turks and Armenians were both killed. It's all in the past and I think people need to move on to other things such as the problem in Darfur. That's a REAL genocide that is going on today.

Answer 5

Im turkey, well part turkey and no i dont find it insulting but thank you for caring.

Answer 6

I agree with redcandy