One of the most abominable exaggerations I ran across as an infantryman during W.W.II 
was the slogan, "Gott Mit Uns" (God is with us).  It was stamped on all of the belt 
buckles of the German military.   Looking back, history proved what a gross abomination 
this was because even with Hitler and God on their side, Nazi Germany still lost the war.


Today, when the nations of our world are finally accepting the 1915 Genocide of our 
people and making it a part of their historic curriculums, we find Armenia floundering in 
self-inflicted internal power struggles.   As for the poor deprived populace, if they are not 
leaving Armenia for greener pastures, they are helplessly watching and suffering in 
silence.


During the past month, I have been reading and hearing some adverse responses to 
Baroness Caroline Cox’s March 30, 2000 open letter to our Armenian people.   And even 
though all of these adverse responses were well meaning, I can’t help but feel that this 
great lady’s real message went by unnoticed.  In short, and in my humble opinion, I 
believe that the message she was trying to get across without hurting the obvious inflated 
egos of many of the inept leaders who presently hold high positions in government over 
there, was to put an end to their internal skirmishes and to start doing what they’re 
politically obligated to do:  first and foremost to protect the sovereignty of their 
floundering republics without giving anything away.  And secondly, to do their utmost 
toward improving the safety and well being of all those whose future they hold in their 
hands.  


Can anyone with only an inkling of Armenian history doubt it when Lady Cox says, "The 
Islamic forces in the Caucus are determined decisively to resolve the problems of 
Armenia and Karabagh by force?"


Is she being irrational?  Just how far along on the road to survival would our newest 
Republics have been were it not for the help of the humanists of our world including 
many individual champions such as the Baroness herself?  And even more so, how far 
along that road would our newest Republics have been were it not for the fact that Mother 
Russia is also dead set against seeing a stronger Turkish Islamic confederation on her 
borders?  


What this all comes down to is, I believe, why Baroness Cox wrote her open letter to the 
Armenians in the first place.  It was to motivate all Armenians into trying to bring all of 
our efforts under one tent.


Talk about insight -- I believe that Baroness Caroline Cox is very familiar with Armenian 
personalities and, as such, is very familiar with the fact that many of us suffer from a Don 
Quixote syndrome.  As for those "Gott Mit Uns" belt buckles which the Nazis were so 
proud of, I believe that was put to rest 85 years ago in the middle of the 1915 Genocide 
when one of our immortal Armenian scholars wrote, "Hoor-ess Ahs-vahdz?"  (Where are 
you God?)


Joseph Vosbikian