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OBAMA ISSUES HILARIOUS STATEMENT ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Posted on April 24, 2015, 8:37 am by Keith Koffler
President Obama issued a statement on the Armenian genocide that
amounts to a contortionist act at the circus, implying the word
"genocide" while twisting himself into knots to avoid using the
actual term.
Today is the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, committed
by the Turks. Obama promised during his 2008 campaign to finally use
the dreaded word to describe what happened. But, frightened of the
reaction by the Turks, he is breaking his promise.
The statement he issued instead must be the warm up by his joke
writers, who are piecing together his remarks for Saturday's White
House Correspondents' dinner. Because this has to be a joke.
Obama lays it on thick, as if a surplus of emotion can atone for
the deficit of moral fortitude. The statement is nearly 800 words,
among them tear jerkers like "horrific," "horrors" "solemn" "painful"
"solemn" (again) "painful" (again) "terrible" and "dark."
He tries as hard as possible to get within inches of using the
word "genocide" without actually deploying it. He calls it "a mass
atrocity," which is close, and suggests - hint, hint - that he really
thinks it is a genocide by declaring, "I have consistently stated my
own view of what occurred in 1915, and my view has not changed." His
own view of it as a "genocide" having been expressed from the safer
grounds of the Senate.
How very lawyerly of him.
He uses the Armenian term for the massacre, Meds Yeghern, as if to
say - hint, hint - that he agrees with them about what went down.
Without any apparent irony, he notes, "As the horrors of 1915 unfolded,
U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, Sr. sounded the alarm inside the
U.S. government and confronted Ottoman leaders."
CONFRONTING THE OTTOMANS IS EXACTLY WHAT OBAMA HIMSELF IS FAILING
TO DO.
As I noted Thursday, the Turks will complain, but the Turks will get
over it. A genocide is not something that can become an element of
realpolitik. Obama should be ashamed of himself. I'll bet he is.
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2015/04/24/obama-issues-hilarious-statement-armenian-genocide/
Posted on April 24, 2015, 8:37 am by Keith Koffler
President Obama issued a statement on the Armenian genocide that
amounts to a contortionist act at the circus, implying the word
"genocide" while twisting himself into knots to avoid using the
actual term.
Today is the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, committed
by the Turks. Obama promised during his 2008 campaign to finally use
the dreaded word to describe what happened. But, frightened of the
reaction by the Turks, he is breaking his promise.
The statement he issued instead must be the warm up by his joke
writers, who are piecing together his remarks for Saturday's White
House Correspondents' dinner. Because this has to be a joke.
Obama lays it on thick, as if a surplus of emotion can atone for
the deficit of moral fortitude. The statement is nearly 800 words,
among them tear jerkers like "horrific," "horrors" "solemn" "painful"
"solemn" (again) "painful" (again) "terrible" and "dark."
He tries as hard as possible to get within inches of using the
word "genocide" without actually deploying it. He calls it "a mass
atrocity," which is close, and suggests - hint, hint - that he really
thinks it is a genocide by declaring, "I have consistently stated my
own view of what occurred in 1915, and my view has not changed." His
own view of it as a "genocide" having been expressed from the safer
grounds of the Senate.
How very lawyerly of him.
He uses the Armenian term for the massacre, Meds Yeghern, as if to
say - hint, hint - that he agrees with them about what went down.
Without any apparent irony, he notes, "As the horrors of 1915 unfolded,
U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, Sr. sounded the alarm inside the
U.S. government and confronted Ottoman leaders."
CONFRONTING THE OTTOMANS IS EXACTLY WHAT OBAMA HIMSELF IS FAILING
TO DO.
As I noted Thursday, the Turks will complain, but the Turks will get
over it. A genocide is not something that can become an element of
realpolitik. Obama should be ashamed of himself. I'll bet he is.
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2015/04/24/obama-issues-hilarious-statement-armenian-genocide/