and done a lot of research on this – there is broad support for the notion of genocide... on the part of a lot of people who didn’t have a dog in the fight. There are plenty of Ottomans, of course, who contended otherwise. But in any case, the mathematics of it – the number of Armenians in eastern Turkey, versus the number of dead Armenians two years later – suggests very strongly that the “sh*t happens in wartime” argument is wrongheaded, as is the “popular uprising” theory. Perhaps there’s a certain element of hypocrisy, as you point out with respect to the American treatment of Native Americans. But to me, that doesn’t mean that doing the right thing today by calling what happened with the Armenians a genocide is bad or wrong. Re: The Colonial Pipeline Is a Wakeup Call Trish, the EMP threat is most definitely real. The good news is that it is relatively easily to protect against, however, it requires a coordinated national effort.
a gun, and need counselling when they read about war, but it is always dangerous to judge a past time by the very different standards of our effete, sissified present. Even taking the absurdity of the above into consideration, my main objection is that Americans would possess the hypocrisy to denounce a country that did not exist at the time, for something that happened long before anyone now living was born, and yet would not blame themselves for the absolute certain genocide that our nation perpetrated against the American Indians just 35-40 years before the above timeframe, with the widespread approval of the American public. When our Army, within which I served for 20 years, intentionally distributed smallpox infected blankets to freezing Indian non-combatants, the ugliness of the term genocide is appropriate. Where is the outrage for that in this age of universal outrage? – James R. LTC (Ret), United States Army Kim Iskyan Response: James, thank you for writing in. Neither of us was around back then, so we need to rely on eyewitness
accounts and the historical record. From what I’ve read – I lived in Armenia for two years The bad news, as you note, is that the “government” (no administration) has paid more than lip service to the problem. UR PAST ISSUES New to American Consequences? Check out our magazine archive... The mainstream media isn't telling you everything, and we've got the full story. CLICK HERE.
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