Commentary: Turkey

By Kevin Charles Pedrick

It was an odd, 180 degree turn of events, within the span of a week. There it was, the specter of Congress, appearing to be primed and postured to seek sanctions against Turkey, for alleged acts of genocide committed in 1915.

" Say what ? "

" Alleged acts of genocide. They committed genocide. "

" In what year ? "

" 1915. "

" You have to be kidding me. "

" No. Standard operating procedure. It's the new way government is done. Remember Tilden v. Hayes ? "

" But there was a World War taking place in 1915. "

" Yes. And ? "

" And isn't that a bit of cherry picking, not to mention, belated ? Who in God's name remembers 1915 besides that Nobel Prize winner who believes that African Americans are inferior based on his studies of DNA ? Ninetenn freaking fifteen ? "

" But genocide is genocide. Saddam committed genocide, and that's why Don had to liberate the Iraqis. "

" You mean Saddam committed genocide the last time Iraq was at war with Iran ? "

" Genocide is genocide is genocide no matter how you cut it, when it's committed. Genocide's wrong. "

" And so now that Bush has decided to support the Turks, less than a week after Congress appeared to support sanctions for some obscure historic atrocity, when the Kurds rise up and start a Civil War in Turkey and the Pentagon reacts by suppressing and killing them, and then burying them in mass graves, who will have committed genocide, V.I. Lenin ? "