When policy makers trade the character and integrity of their nations for economic or 
geopolitical advantage, I call it, poor diplomacy.   And what we usually find under such 
circumstances is that when these policy-makers try to classify this unfortunate 
phenomenon as what’s in our nations best interest, we find that it is not as much for the 
benefit of the nations they supposedly represent, but more so for themselves and for the 
self-interest of the power mongers who influence them.


For the better part of the last century, very little was done by the major powers of our 
world to get Turkey to confirm the atrocities of their Ottoman past.  Aside from the 
350,000 or more Armenians they butchered in 1895 and the 1,500,000 they butchered 
from 1915 to 1923, their incessant cruelty on their remaining unwanted minorities has not 
diminished.


Today, Turkey illegally occupies a large part of Cyprus while continuing to commit 
genocide on her unwanted Kurds.   Meantime, because Turkey is a part of NATO, and 
because she was an expensive but a useful ally during the Cold War, and because she can 
still help to bring Azerbajian’s oil reserves under the control of Western oil cartels, most 
NATO nations have been sweeping Turkey’s past and present crimes under the table.  


Recently, however, since the information explosion which was triggered, in good part by 
Vahakan Dadrian’s research and publications, along with his accurate listing of 
undeniable confirmed bibliography, many of our Western nations are finally seeing the 
light and are trying to reclaim the old-fashioned character and integrity on which their 
nations once placed value.


As of today, there is some positive movement by many nations toward making some of 
the most heinous crimes by rogue nations a confirmed part of world history, regardless of 
the diplomatic risks involved.


The bloodiest of all centuries, the twentieth, started with the Armenian Genocide on April 
24, 1915.   This was followed by the Russian revolution and the birth of the despotic 
Communist United Soviet Socialist Republic.  By the time Joseph Stalin died on March 
5, 1963, he had exterminated more than 20,000,000 of his own people.  Before and during 
W.W.II, Adolph Hitler and his Nazi stalwarts had exterminated 6,000,000 Jews along 
with countless others who stood in his way.  The Communist Chinese takeover of China 
accounted for another 14,000,000.  And how can we forget Biafra or Nigeria where more 
than 1,000,000 people were slaughtered.  Then there was Rowanda, Bosnia, Albania, etc., 
etc., each with their own untold sufferings and deprivations -- and each being victimized 
while the whole world sat and helplessly watched.  


As for our United States, though there has been some very positive movement among our 
members of legislature, the executive branch, along with our State Department, are still 
prostituting themselves for personal or geo-political advantage.


Hitler once said, "Who remembers the Armenians?"  Perhaps if the world had 
remembered the Armenians, the carnage that followed throughout the twentieth century 
may never have happened.  One thing for sure, however, if the Armenian massacres were 
remembered, Turkey wouldn’t be trying to keep a bunch of rotten eggs from hatching and 
even more important, her people may have been on their way toward living under a real 
democracy other than the oppressive military dictatorship they exist under today.  


Joseph Vosbikian