Turkey's role in middle eastern politics

[The Grand Nudger]

Has it ever occurred to you that people who revolt against their governments may have reasons for doing so, or are they just evil "non-turks" who like to cause trouble? Perhaps they were thinking of their children. Imagining their children's lives under an administrator or dictator with ideology that matches your own. I'd take up arms against that pretty quick, even if I knew we couldn't possibly win. I wouldn't want to be remembered as the generation that didn't even try. You don't seriously believe that there was nothing going on and then all of a sudden genocide was an option? LOL, no, no, the road to genocide is a longer one than all that. It takes generations of hatred along whatever lines the perpetrators decide to draw, in addition to a culture of complacency or even open consent with regards to mistreatment of minorities and dissidents. That, amigo, is why entire nations feel the weight of judgement when it comes to genocide. It isn't just the guy who pulls the trigger that made it possible. It was the guy that mined the ore, the guy that transported the ore, the smelters, the gunsmiths, the armories, and the farmer who fed them all. Then, the "soldier" (and I use the term loosely when it comes to genocidal pricks) gets to be the triggerman in the genocidal machine. You know who else gets to play a part? Propagandists who will say just about anything to make it okay. "They had it coming", "It never really happened", "Those people were troublemakers", etc etc etc. We're very familiar with this over here in the states, it's not like we haven't done the same. Try not to get butthurt when someone suggests that your revisionism is bullshit and that Turkey, like every great power (or in your case former great power) has blood on it's hands. I probably would have never even gone down this road if you could have controlled yourself, and avoided the "woe is us" routine. Vae Victis.