Comments on: Obama Avoids “Genocide” in Genocide Statement

By: Raffi

Raffi — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:45:22 +0000

http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2009/05/13/obama-and-denial-of-the-armenian-genocide/

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:15:19 +0000

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.J.RES.46:

I’d rather see the G-word in this, but it’s a start. Such a step by Turkey would also be progress.

Simon, you follow this kind of thing–do we have one of these bills every year, or is this new?

By: Hagop

Hagop — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:13:18 +0000

And Kurdistan sounds better than Turkey.

Grow up.

By: barbaros

barbaros — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:51:19 +0000

Hey Raffi, and I was missing my old sparring partner and there you are. Anyway wasn’t the Treaty of Serves just great for Armenians? You had a huge country and we had a tiny piece of land surrounded by hostiles. But thanks to my all time favorite superhero ( I mean superhero in the truest sense ) MKA, we whooped some Allied, Greek and Armenian butt and instigated the Treaty of Lausanne. Therefore rendering any illusions of a greater Armenia or Greece. Plus, Lausanne sounds better than Serves yuk…

By: Raffi

Raffi — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:59:10 +0000

Barbados, I could handle a great wall on our border if you feel so threatened by the Armenian hordes. Here are the instructions for the builders

http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Wilsonian_Armenia

By: barbaros

barbaros — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:44:17 +0000

That speech was an ottoman slap on the Armenians. Everyone was so confident that he was going to say the g word this year. O well, now only if Turkey could build a great chinese wall on the border of Armenia. It will both keep the illegals out and seperate the two countries shared border.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:08:28 +0000

Obama did not keep his promise.The reason Obama used the Armenian phrase “Mets Yeghern”, was to avoid the “G” word in order to not upset Turkey.Well, it seems that the first reactions from Turkey was that the Turkish President criticized Obama for not mentioning that the Turks/Muslims were also victims and that they too should also be commemorated.But they didn`t recall their ambassador as they did recently with their ambassador to Canada because Canadian officials had attended an event commemorating the Armenian Genocide.

However the Turkish Coalition of America was full of praise of Obama.(“Bad cop, good cop”?)

Obama is a sneaky bastard and it seems that he got his mission accomplished.

Anyway, I think that Obama should be commended for his speech in Turkey and the presser he held afterwards however when it comes keeping his pledge to recognize the Armenian Genocide as “GENOCIDE” on 24th April he sucked big time.Shame on him!

By: Zane

Zane — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:56:40 +0000

Raffi,
Yeah, maybe an A- was too generous, I’ll downgrade it to a B based on your arguments.

By: Raffi

Raffi — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:16:09 +0000

Zane, you’re a very generous grader. Mets Yeghern refers to what happened to the Armenians, a big catastrophe, which Turkey freely admits it was. They avoid and lobby against the word tseghaspanutyun – genocide. Obama skipped it, tried to play games with Armenian words, and if we must grade him based on the Bush-Clinton curve, he gets a C+ for very very marginally acknowledging that he USED to be brave enough to say the word genocide.

But if you don’t grade on a curve, he gets an F, because he completely failed the assignment he himself agreed to take on.

By: American Citizen

American Citizen — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:54:33 +0000

http://www.obamasunkeptpromises.com