kemal/5

Thursday, August 18, 2011
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ONEUPMANSHIP
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Only Armenian writers writing in Armenian
are eager to inform me that I don’t qualify
as an Armenian writer because I write in English,
as if being an Armenian writer
were an honor and a privilege
as opposed to being a curse and sometimes even
a death sentence.
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About the Genocide and its Recognition:
either Turks are mean as well as obstinate (probably both)
or we are incompetent and stupid (ditto).
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And speaking of Genocide Recognition:
where would this issue – so dear to all our hearts – be
without the contribution of Armenian writers
writing in odar languages?
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Our patriotism teaches us to love our homeland
and to hate our fellow men – including Armenians.
As for criticizing Armenians in open forums
accessible to our enemies:
even when completely blind,
our enemies acquire 20/20 vision
when it comes to identifying our weaknesses and failings.
That’s the way of the world and the jungle.
I have every reason to believe
Turks know more about us
than we know ourselves.
I doubt if I have ever said anything
they didn’t already know.
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Friday, August 19, 2011
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WHAT I KNOW
ABOUT OUR BRAINWASHED DUPES
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They believe to have the rare gift
of judging someone they don’t know
and criticizing a text they haven’t read.
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Not only do they believe God to be an Armenian,
they also believe His patience is without end.
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They have a tendency to believe the absurd
and to reject the evidence of their own eyes.
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They may not be happier than us
But for some incomprehensible reason
they appear to be on better terms with themselves.
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Saturday, August 20, 2011
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ON KEMAL (V)
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Finally an objective assessment of Kemal
by a Turkish biographer.
After discussing the fallacies Kemal espoused
(scientism, materialism, nationalism, among others),
we are told, he may have been the right man
at the right time and place
but he was not a great man.
“The key to Ataturk’s success lay not
in the originality of his ideas
but in the singularity of the opportunity he seized.”
See M. Sukru Hanioglu, ATATURK (Princeton, $27.95).
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The trouble with most academics is that
they fall hopelessly in love with their thesis.
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The most dangerous dupe is the propagandist
who believes in his own propaganda.
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A brainwashed Turk and a brainwashed Armenian
might as well be twins.
They belong to no known nation
except the nation of the brainwashed.
They are the cattle of mankind.
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We judge people not by how good they are
but how much they love or flatter us.
To the rest we are indifferent.
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