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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

As For President Biden's Decision to Spit the Dummy and Call Out Turkey For Its Century-Old and Long Since Well-Authenticated Act of Genocide Against Armenians In (& Around) World War 1, "Good On Ya, Joe"...As We Might Put It In New Zealand ("Kiwi') Parlance: Though (Some/A Small Contingent Of) Our Own WW1 Forces Might Well, It Seems, Have Participated In Their Own Acts of War Criminality in Turkey At That Time, Let's Have the Guts and the Gumption to Clear the Record, Set All the Facts Upon the Table, and Engage in Some Suitable Acts - Not El Usual Pious Platitudes Alone - Of Due Contrition and Heartfelt Repentance Thereabouts; Just As Pope Francis Did Awhile Ago...Though For A Pope - ANY POPE - To Call Out ANYONE ELSE, INCLUDING ANY NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OR SOVEREIGN JURISDICTION, For The Same Cannot But Recall To One's Mind - Any RATIONAL, CLEAR-HEADED MIND, That Is - The Old Adage About The Pot Calling the Kettle Black, Though In the Case of the Papacy, Whose Hands Are Soaked and Dripping With the Blood of Perhaps 150-Odd Million Men, Women and Children, Including Nursing Infants and Unborn Babies, During the Millennia of Their Dark Ages' Bloodthirsty Savagery, THAT DOES NOT EVEN BEGIN TO DESCRIBE THE IRONY LET ALONE HYPOCRISY Of Denouncing What In the Case of Turkey's Armenians Was An Awful and Ghastly Episode In Their History...And One Evidently Playing A Formative Role in the Mental Cogitations of a Certain German Fu(e)hrer Who Soon Enough Applied the Lessons He'd Learned To Other Despised Races, Ethnicities And Minority Groups, Such as Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, the Mentally/Intellectually and Physically Disabled, Weak, Infirm and Incapacitated...

And kudos also to the much-decried Ronald Wilson Reagan, who was apparently the only other U S President - no, apparently not James Earl Carter, that great humanitarian especially ever since he left the White House - to similarly name and shame Turkey over its acts of Armenian genocide...

Postscript:

And let's hear a whole lot less similarly pious drivel about the potentially negative economic/financial fallout from such courageous decisions and declarations,

let the truth out and let the cards fall where they well may, the truly godly like their Leader speak the truth though the heavens may well fall in the interim, they simply cannot help themselves...

But do let such bold declarations and denunciations be duly followed up with associated and appropriate actions (by the new American Administration) or people may well conclude that it's just another instance of *pious grandstanding...

*In 'God's Own'/'Godzone' (i.e. Aotearoa-New Zealand) we commonly refer to such these days as virtue-signalling - the act of engaging in the despicable 'art' of self-righteous oneupmanship.

Post-Postscript: 

However Pat Robertson & Co (on their daily 700 Club) are right about one thing on this particular matter: Turkey's despot-in-chief Erdogan is not going to be backward in coming forward in (not) forgoing any and every opportunity devolving from such a pronouncement to use it to inexorably propel onwards and downwards his own perverse Middle Eastern designs and thus and so doubtless help in fulfilling last-days' biblical prophecies pertaining to that very contentious corner of the globe!

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