The quality of foreign diplomacy between many of today's nations, and most especially ours, 
is at a very critical stage, a critical stage we created through geo-political policies 
adopted by our State Department.

    Today, the value of our international relationships is no longer calculated through a 
level of integrity, honesty, and human values but through geo-political advantage only.  
Human values no longer enter into it.  Many nations today, including our own, readily 
compromise their ethical values for such advantages.

    The most horrendous example of this comes to mind and which I have referred to in the 
past as "whorehouse diplomacy," is the massacring of 1,500,000 Armenians by the Ottoman 
Turkish Empire from 1915-1923, a genocide with which our present-day State Department is 
playing diplomatic games.  

    It seems that the present-day Turkish government, a critical NATO ally, encouraged 
and supported by our State Department, continues on with her hundred years of fabricated 
denial.  And how does Turkey continue to maintain such a denial?  By threatening that they 
will not trade with

those nations who have or will accept the fact that the Ottoman Turkish government from 
1915-1923 did indeed massacre 1,500,000 of her Armenian subjects.

    Outside of Turkey, many nations have already accepted the Ottoman genocide of 
the Armenians as a part of their historical archives.  Matter of fact, it was also 
accepted by most scholars and legislators in our country until the NATO Alliance was formed, 
after which our State Department suddenly and tactfully started referring to the Armenian 
Genocide as "alleged."  Is it any wonder why many of us today wonder where such monstrous 
diplomacy ends and truth begins?

    Should continuing to keep an outdated and flawed military alliance with Turkey (which 
incidentally didn't hold up too well when we attacked Iraq) justify prostituting the 
integrity of our great nation?

    At one point during his reign of terror, Hitler asked, "Who remembers the Armenians?"  
And you know what?  That s.o.b. (Shoon shun ortee), may have known what he was talking about.

                        Joseph Vosbikian