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Originally posted by taxwonk
I am sympathetic to the plight of ethnic Albanians. I just think that engaging in a symantic exercise that serves no purpose other than pissing off the successor to a country that engaged in despicable acts generations ago is kind of stupid.
It's sort of like a UN resolution declaring our predecessors' forced eviction, relocation, and slaughter of the native population to be genocide. It's the truth, but it does nothing for the population of Pine Ridge.
If Congress wants to really do something, it could pass a resolution in favor of dealing independently with the Kurdish and Armenian populations of Turkey on access to Northern Iraq and the use of land for bases unless Turkey (i) stops oppressing minorities and (ii) steps up to the plate with respect to Iraq.
That would be a similarly rash and ultimately futile legislative gesture, but at least it would be proactive.
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Whose propaganda have you been reading on the successor state stuff? The Armenian Genocide was a key chapter in the rise of the Young Turks, who ultimately formed the Turkish state and whose ideology is still very much at the center of the state.
Does this mean you view acts that memorialize and commemorate the Holocaust as futile? Are acts like the Pope's apology for the Holy See's complicity and failure to oppose the Holocaust futile?
This may be a symbolic gesture, but it has great meaning for Turks, who very much need to reexamine this part of their history. Instead, they outlaw discussion of it.
