Not Morris Dees
President Bush and the American power structure seem to be obsessed with the country of Turkey. They’re all trying to bully the European Union to accept Turkey as a member, meaning that Turks would have the legal right to live in any EU country — Germany is already beside itself over its existing Turkish population (which the American military forced on them after WWII to have labor to rebuild the country). All of this for a frankly unreliable ally in the War on Terror.
Now, Congress is pondering a resolution denoting and condemning the genocide of some 1.5 million (white) Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks (largely non-white) in 1915. President Bush opposes it, fearing damage in relations with modern-day Turkey.
History is replete with too many examples of how white people and countries are willing to play footsey with non-white people and countries, because they have contentions with other white people in countries — and those games wind up hurting the whites in the long run. For instance, because the American government had problems with European regimes, we implemented to Monroe Doctrine, presumably to keep European hands out of the Western Hemisphere. But the Monroe Doctrine is the beef that just about every country in the Western Hemisphere has with the USA, because it entailed too much interference and proto-colonialism. If Chicanos eventually do dismember territorially the USA, the Monroe Doctrine will be one of the reasons.
Also, because the American elite strongly abhorred the collective economic ideology practiced in the former Soviet Union from 1917 to 1989, we not-so-secretly aided Afghanistan when the Soviets decided to add it to their empire in 1979. The Soviets were able to topple the existing Afghan government, but got bogged down in the failed decade-long attempt to occupy the country, as the resistance was helped by powerful enemies of the Soviets, and the affair delegitimized and bankrupted the Soviet Union. (Sound familiar?) In our aiding the Afghanis, we inadvertently laid the groundwork for AQ/OBL, which came back to bite us two decades later. In hindsight, if we were going to be involved, we should have helped the Soviets overrun Afghanistan, not the other way around. Communism and the Soviet Union would have fallen anyway, Afghanistan would have been just another Soviet “Stan” that would have (re-)gained independence after the eventual fall, but there would have been no Taliban, no AQ, no powerful OBL, and no 9/11.
The moral of this story is that white people shouldn’t side with non-whites to fight other whites. While there may not be any vast repercussions to American national power or pride that will come by denying the attempted Armenian holocaust, if President Bush gets his way, it will be a smaller yet just as reprehensible example.
The irony of someone named Bush jilting the Armenians is that, in 1988, the first George Bush had the Armenian-American Governor of California, George Deukmejian, (above, whose wife was also an American-born of Armenian descent), on his short list for a running mate. I wonder how he feels today, as he sees the son of the man who might well have made him Vice-President diss his own people like this.
UPDATE 10/11: Perhaps one of the benefits of the sudden souring of Turkish-American relations brought about by the Democrats’ resolution is that the American power structure will quit pushing the EU to admit Turkey.
