Politics and Culture

In this deranged article filled with the kind of non-sequiturs common in left opinion, Robert Fisk says that Bush is going along with Turkey's insistence that the Armenian genocide was part of a civil war. No, he's not. He's just saying that now isn't the time to antagonize allies. He's being practical.

Here's the beginning:

Follow up:

Do you need me to point out the irony that Fisk probably wants to negotiate with real holocaust denier, the Ayatollah of Iran? That he would never have helped Iraqis remove mass killer Saddam Hussein? You see, Fisk likes to help people that are already dead. Forget the living.

How are the mighty fallen! President George Bush, the crusader king who would draw the sword against the forces of Darkness and Evil, he who said there was only "them or us", who would carry on, he claimed, an eternal conflict against "world terror" on our behalf; he turns out, well, to be a wimp. A clutch of Turkish generals and a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign on behalf of Turkish Holocaust deniers have transformed the lion into a lamb. No, not even a lamb – for this animal is, by its nature, a symbol of innocence – but into a household mouse, a little diminutive creature which, seen from afar, can even be confused with a rat. Am I going too far? I think not.

And this:

Notice the lack of evidence. It sounds like a preacher declaiming the father who won't take his kids to Church.

Among those men who should hold their heads in shame are those who claim they are winning the war in Iraq. They include the increasingly disoriented General David Petraeus, US commander in Iraq, and the increasingly delusional US ambassador to Baghdad, Ryan Crocker, both of whom warned that full passage of the Armenian genocide bill would "harm the war effort in Iraq". And make no mistake, there are big bucks behind this disgusting piece of Holocaust denial.