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Can Someone Explain the Purpose of the Word Games?

wvkeeper(HN)

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We play with the Armenian genocide?

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We don't hide the Holocaust to in order to risk offending Angela Merkel or play "don't call it that" with any other country.

Why Turkey?
 
Obama has to find some way to make peace with the hippies since he couldn't stop the gas prices going down and all the pollution that has caused.

We may not be able to save the planet, but we can act like we care about people on different parts of it. At the big Hollywood tea sippin' parties, that's probably something they nod affirmatively and smile about.
 
The region is a little more on fire right now. Not that it wasn't on fire for Reagan, but yeah it is a little insane at the moment.

Frankly, I wouldn't care if we pissed off the Turks. But I get it. But no one is going to care in a few days when a naval war breaks out in the Persian Gulf.
 
...and to be clear the "competence" factor here is not because President Obama is dumb (far from it), but because he is not a good manager. He has an inability to organize the competing voices in his administration, which leads to things like a Carrier Group stopping an Iranian arms shipment in contested waters.
 
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Does Turkey deny the scope the the Armernian Genocide (a la Iran) or do they just quibble over definitions?
 
Does Turkey deny the scope the the Armernian Genocide (a la Iran) or do they just quibble over definitions?

Basically, Muslim Turks argue that the Armenians rebelled for a couple decades, trying to carve out their own state; that many Armenians died in battle; much of it was within the context of WWI; and that over a million Muslims died fighting them. And of course the usual claims of inflated death totals. All of which are sort of good points, but deny the whole systematic genocide thing that actually occurred.
 
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