On Jun 21, 2009, at 10:18 PM, Lajany Otum wrote:
> Dennis Perrin writes:
>
>
>> Well, how many "educated" Americans know or care that their
>> government essentially denies (or "overlooks") the well-established
>> Armenian genocide -- not based on some crackpot belief, but for
>> geopolitical purposes? Which is more "embarrassing": having a
>> theocratic clown deny genocide, or having "educated" technocrats
>> doing the same?
>
>> Dennis
>
> Besides which it should be noted that the US state, and the West
> European powers, have no difficulty having more than cordial
> relationships with either anti-semites, in the Saudi Royal family,
> and Holocaust deniers, in Abu Mazen (the Western supported head of
> Fatah and the Palestinian Authority see http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2006/05/hamas-fools-and-fath-crooks-i-have.html
> ), neither of which is a "pariah" or too "embarrassing" to obtain
> the lavish support of official opinion makers.
If there were an Olympic competition for deliberately missing the point, you guys would win. Only questions would be who got the silver and who got the gold.