Write a stern letter to the Caliph demanding recompense
Can someone please explain this to me? Please? In your explanation please include material as to why this isn’t complete and total dumbfuckery.
Near as I can tell, it goes like this:
- Ottoman Empire kills Armenians. Lots and lots of Armenians.
- Ottoman Empire falls, Ataturk founds the modern secular nation of Turkey, its founding principles entirely opposite from the Ottoman Empire.
- 70-something years later, we decide to call the Turks assholes for what the Ottomans did, esp. considering there’s probably no one alive (or, very very few at any rate) who committed the crimes, or shit, even witnessed them. Ostensibly this is acceptable because, an Ottoman (as in “citizen of the Ottoman Empire”) was/is a Turk (as in “ethnically of or related to the peoples that live in and around the modern nation of Turkey”).
Am I close? Boner’s right: let the historians debate the label, leave shit from 70 years ago (and OF ANOTHER GOVERNMENT ENTIRELY) out of today’s foreign policy decisions.
More baffling: Why is the House bothering with a resolution such as this when there are myriad more important issues on which to focus, both domestic and international? This is fucking absurd.
I guess the house has now solved all of the problems that needed attention and have nothing better to do. Maybe they can pass a resulution that calls condemns how the American Indians werre removed from their homes and put into areas they died because there was no food. But I guess that was OK as the population then could mine for gold and silver that helped the economy. That must had a more noble purpose that the Turks doing their thing with the Armneians so that can be looked overlooked. Oh well, business as usual.