[arthurus]

There are some who, for whatever esoteric reason, are so fixated on on something that happened a century ago under a government and system that no longer exists, was,in fact, overthrown and an Islamic tyranny replaced by a Republic, that they are willing to sacrifice the United States in order to rightavenge a wrong committed by a system that no longer exists. Such are no more on "our" side than are the Pelosi Democrats. They would throw over an ally and close supply lines to our troops and shut down the war in order to feel righteous about something that cannot be avenged or even apologized for as the perpetrators were removed from history. Is the US constrained to apologize for whatever outrages might have been committed by its government previous to 1776? Must we be taken to task for the Irish Potato Famine? The government that prevented aid was our government just as the Sultan was the government of Turkey. That government, in fact, was an empire and Turkey was part of that empire just as the North American colonies were part of the British Empire and the colonists were Englishmen. Irredentism should have died a half century ago but it still lives, I suppose, along with the headhunting mania of Islamists.

[tabsternager]

“They would throw over an ally...”

That’s where we disagree. Any nation that continuously denies and covers up evidence of a genocide and pretends to be “offended” that another nation acknowledges that genocide is no ally.