Posted on 04/24/2015 8:16:52 AM PDT by presidio9
“The Armenian genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion or a point of view, but rather a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence,” said a US senator named Barack Obama in 2008, before he sought to be elected to the highest office in the land.
He was right then. He is so very wrong now.
On 24 April 1915, near the end of the Ottoman empire, more than 200 Armenian intellectuals in Istanbul, most of whom were in government custody, were killed. More than a million of their kin were killed in the following year as part of a national program designed to quite literally decimate the Armenian populace of the crumbling empire.
In 2008, Obama was unequivocal about his plans to acknowledge that history: “As president I will recognize the Armenian genocide.” In the ensuing 7 years, he has yet to do so. What irks isn’t just that he broke a campaign promise – politicians do that all the time – but that he would refuse to acknowledge historical facts he’s already admitted to knowing.
The reason for his studied ignorance is entirely too obvious: Turkey is a valuable NATO ally, and has been (sometimes) helpful in the fight against the Islamic State (Isis). Given Turkey’s attacks on the Pope and the European Union for recognizing the genocide, Obama is seeking to avoid a tiff with another ally.
The Guardian reported that the fight against Isis and even the “safety of US diplomats and troops in Turkey,” entered into the administration’s decision to continue the policy of not saying “the g-word”.
The Turkish government, however, is in the wrong – and the US government need not and should not remain complicit in denying the truth of -SNIP-
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At day’s end, Obama believe Christians deserve to be eliminated. He has never yet stood up for Christians, even though he professes to be a Christian. But then, the Koran makes allowance for lying to get the end result you are seeking.
Which is why no one believes a word the Muslim in Chief says, including our allies and enemies.
He’s not one of us.
Bingo. Obama believes all non-Muslims are lesser beings who may be useful as tools and cannon fodder, but should be eliminated or made slaves to Muslim caliphs. Those leftists who support him and do his bidding are the same as would be Kapos were to the Jews.
Obama is STILL voting “Present”.
Just Muslims killing Christians.
Has any President called it a genocide?
Armenians are a bunch of Christian honkies, so Obummer cares not a whit what happens to any of them now or what happened to them in the past.
That was before Bush became President. Obama recognized the Armenian Genocide before he was President, too.
I don’t know that a sitting President has recognized it, using the word “genocide.”
President Obama has a callous disregard for human life, especially Christians.
That became abundantly clear when Mr. Obama casually dismissed the sale of air defense weapons to Iran. Never mind that it will cost American lives to defeat such weapons.
If Obama doesn’t care for American lives currently, what does he care about events that happened long ago?
Does he acknowledge the Holocaust? The dictators of Iran claim it’s all fiction.
The muzzie in chief won’t even call the Islamic state Islamic.
Barry is so full of crap that if he took an Ex-Lax, he’d disappear.
It is worth noting that out of diplomatic concerns the government of Israel does not officially recognize what Armenians refer to as "The Great Catastrophe" as a "genocide."
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