Eisenhower warned us about this so many years ago. Politicians of all stripes, but particularly Republicans, love them some war. The more the better, in fact.
The public’s is losing patience with the Great War on Terror. The national as a whole is experiencing a gradual extinction of the fear response (being replaced with looming financial uncertainty). Conservatives are clearly anticipating the diminishing financial rewards of the Long War, but as a funder of campaign coffers as well as new plunder for profit. Iran is not panning out to be the great threat they had hoped. Simply put, they are running out of war-porn.
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The Democrats are getting lambasted by the Conservative Establishment Press for passing a resolution condemning the Turk's genocide of 1,500,000 ethnic Armenians nearly a century ago.
This is consistent with the holding of millenial-spanning grudges.
The criticism is further confusing, as Presidental candidate Bush, in 1999, had strong words for the Turkish genocide.
The twentieth century was marred by wars of unimaginable brutality, mass murder and genocide. History records that the Armenians were the first people of the last century to have endured these cruelties. The Armenians were subjected to a genocidal campaign that defies comprehension and commands all decent people to remember and acknowledge the facts and lessons of an awful crime in a century of bloody crimes against humanity. If elected President, I would ensure that our nation properly recognizes the tragic suffering of the Armenian people.
So, what's changed? Turkey is an essential partner in the GWOT, providing staging areas, landing strips, and airspace. Turkey is one of the globes few secularly-governed moderately-Muslim nations. Although it may be convenient to blame the Democrats for the newly aggressive threatened Turkish actions towards the Kurds in Northern Iraq (mind you, this isn't the first time we've hung them out to dry), this was inevitable.
The question of Istanbul, or Constantinople has become more complicated
Edited: Added TMBG video, Bush quote from 2000, links for context, and other minor editing.
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In that way, it sustains itself, each attack preemptively justifying the next vicious assault, justifying the whole hateful edifice on which their politics rest.
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An amusing confluence of marketing, stereotypes, prejudice, and popculture.
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