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prejudged_Fire · Oct 11, 2007, 10:01 am

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...cle3047633.ece

The way I understand it, the Armenian killings, by definition, WAS genocide. Now, Turkey is pissed off because Congress is now recognizing it as such, and is threatening to stop aiding the US in the Iraq war. What are your thoughts? Should America recognize the killings as genocide? Or mass murder?

Chancellor · Oct 11, 2007, 11:17 am

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Bush and Congress dispute Armenian 'genocide' status - Independent Online Edition > Americas

The way I understand it, the Armenian killings, by definition, WAS genocide. Now, Turkey is pissed off because Congress is now recognizing it as such, and is threatening to stop aiding the US in the Iraq war. What are your thoughts? Should America recognize the killings as genocide? Or mass murder?

Wasn't this question raised in another thread?

butterbut · Oct 11, 2007, 10:42 pm

I don't see why it matters. All that matters is right now. We should not make some symbolic gesture that actually means nothing. Especially, when it will piss off our allies.

Beastie · Oct 12, 2007, 11:38 am

While I see very little point in setting the standard now, it should also be stated that the US shouldn't make a decision on something like genocide just because it's not convenient at this particular time.

It should have been decided a long time ago, but kudos to them for at least seeing it as that now.

As far as "pissing off" our allies? Well perhaps the Turks should have decided to come to agreement about this a long time ago. The majority of the world believes it happened and while I can't say for sure it happened because I was never there, heck I wasn't even alive. I do believe it did, just like the Holocaust. Both have been been sufficiently documented I believe to prove it beyond a doubt.

Oct 11, 2007, 10:01 am	#1 (permalink) (top)
prejudged_Fire Hmmmm....... Location: Maine Posts: 997	Bush and Congress dispute Armenian 'genocide' status http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...cle3047633.ece The way I understand it, the Armenian killings, by definition, WAS genocide. Now, Turkey is pissed off because Congress is now recognizing it as such, and is threatening to stop aiding the US in the Iraq war. What are your thoughts? Should America recognize the killings as genocide? Or mass murder? "It's not easy banging your head against some mad bugger's wall." -- Roger Waters (Pink Floyd, "Outside the Wall")

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butterbut UCFKnight Location: UCF Posts: 211	I don't see why it matters. All that matters is right now. We should not make some symbolic gesture that actually means nothing. Especially, when it will piss off our allies. "Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men." - General George S. Patton, Jr

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Beastie Sedimentary Rock Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 1	While I see very little point in setting the standard now, it should also be stated that the US shouldn't make a decision on something like genocide just because it's not convenient at this particular time. It should have been decided a long time ago, but kudos to them for at least seeing it as that now. As far as "pissing off" our allies? Well perhaps the Turks should have decided to come to agreement about this a long time ago. The majority of the world believes it happened and while I can't say for sure it happened because I was never there, heck I wasn't even alive. I do believe it did, just like the Holocaust. Both have been been sufficiently documented I believe to prove it beyond a doubt.