Teddy Roosevelt expresses disdain for America treating Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) more leniently than Germany and Austria-Hungary in part due to the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
We should go to war because not to do so is really to show bad faith towards our allies, and to help Germany, because the Armenian massacre ( Read more... )

Turkey votes on whether to "move troops" into Iraq.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's cabinet asked parliament on Monday for permission to launch attacks on Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq that Washington fears could destabilize one of the most peaceful areas of the country.
Welcome to Pelosi's War. Proof what a well-timed insult aimed at an ally ( Read more... )

Congress scolds Turkey for an event that happened last century.
ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey on Thursday condemned a vote by a US House of Representatives committee branding the World War I massacre of Armenians "genocide" and urged them not to take it to a full House vote.
Way to go, Congress. Piss off one of our allies instead of doing your real jobs! ( Read more... )

Hey, at least they're not poor!
SUNAPEE, N.H. (AP) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn't a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.
You know...because they don't vote ( Read more... )

There are still many deniers (especially in the west, where the ravages of Communism were not seen up-close) of Soviet atrocities like the enforced famine in the Ukraine. However, as time moves on more and more evidence leaves little doubt as to the evil purpose behind Stalin's deliberate starvation of millions of Ukrainians.
KIEV, Ukraine (APThe ( Read more... )