Oct 11 2007
Our Government is stupid
Relationships with Turkey have been strained due to a House resolution to label the World War I massacre of Armenians by Turkey “genocide”. According to a CNN.com article regarding this matter, Turkey has recalled its ambassador to the US, and Turkey has not allowed France to fly over it’s airspace since a similar resolution was passed there last year.  Turkey’s response to the resolution was:
A top Turkish official warned Thursday that consequences “won’t be pleasant” if the full House approves the resolution.
Why are we so stupid? The US was not involved in the Armenian-Turkey conflict during WWI and Turkey is currently a NATO ally and critical access point for the US in the middle east. There is little good to be gleaned from this resolution, why doesn’t the House of Reps just fly over to Turkey and take a big stinking shit on the Prime Minister’s lawn, it would probably be less offensive. The issue here isn’t whether there was actual genocide or not, but rather why are we getting involved now after 90 years… we need a better foreign policy in this country.
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Just a question: what’s Ron Paul’s take on this?
Just saw that Ron Paul didn’t vote:
http://www.cdca.asso.fr/s/detail.php?r=0&id=488
Paul is a non-interventionalist, so I would guess that he would not want to get involved in further politicking in the region, however I do not know his view on this particular resolution.
You can stop playing rugby in Canada, but you can’t kill the ugly American legacy.