From: cosar@ulysses.cs.umn.edu (Ahmet Cosar)
Subject: You are a liar Armenian Terrorist Apologist Davidian!!!(Part 1)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 06:37:23 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.051019.29293@urartu.sdpa.org> dbd@urartu.sdpa.org (David Davidian) writes:
>central Anatolia. We can thank Mr. Ahmet Cosar (cosar@tera.cs.umn.edu) for
>answering an email of mine in such a manner as to elicit this series of
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>postings in response. 


I haven't received any mail from this Armenian liar, let alone send one.
If you want to post your garbage go ahead and post it liar Davidian, don't
try to show your fantasies fabricated in your ill-formed brain as excuse.

Now, as for your fabricated genocide:


Source: Justin McCarthy "Armenian Terrorism: History as Poison and Antidote,"
        International Terrorism and the Drug Connection, Ankara, (Ankara
        University Press), 1984, pp.85-94.

                           ARMENIAN TERRORISM:
                     HISTORY AS POISON AND ANTlDOTE

Historians do not usually contribute to discussions of present-day terrorism.
Middle East historians have especially avoided comment on Armenian terrorism,
preferring topics more remote and less likely to shoot back. However, in
considering Armenian violence, history cannot be ignored, for history is both
the cause of Armenian terrorism and its only cure. Armenian terrorism is
rooted in a false view of history and only by correcting that view will
Armenian terrorism be defeated. I therefore wish to suggest a method not
usually used to combat terrorism -the study of history.

There are many reasons that someone becomes a terrorist; perhaps few of them
have to do with the cause in which the terrorist believes. Many here know the
real psychological and economic motivations of terrorists better than I.

Nevertheless, each terrorist needs a raison d'etre philosophy and a cause for
which he can kill and die. History usually plays a part in this, both because
terrorists often look back to an idyllic past in which all was well with their
people and because terrorists harbor historical grudges and hatreds. Whether
they be the Viet Minh, the Mau Mau, the l.R.A. or others, terrorists who
attack imperial powers usually remember real or imagined historical injuries
and vow vengeance. But with most terrorists history is the smaller part of
their justification. The greater part is their desire to free their people
from bondage, so that their people can rule themselves and their land.
Today's Armenian terrorists are unique in that history is their only real
justification. There are no people to liberate. The aim of Armenian terrorists
is vengeance for what they believe are past wrongs.

There cannot be said to be a practical justification for Armenian terrorism.
Some who provide assistance to Armenian terror, such as the Soviet Union, wish
to disrupt Turkey and NATO and they gain from Armenian violence, but the
Armenians themselves do not, and can not gain. They can never reasonably claim
the area that once was their homeland. Today, less than three million
Armenians live outside the Soviet Union, and of these only a small percentage
would ever migrate to a newly-created Armenia. More than eleven million
Muslims, Turkish citizens, now live in the same area. Armenians could at best
hope to be 10% of the population. Short of a major war that would kill the
eleven million Muslims, an Armenian state in Anatolia is impossible.

Armenian terrorists also cannot be said to be fighting for a better life or
freedom from oppression for their people or even to free their brothers from
an oppressive political yoke. No one seriously believes that the Armenians in
Turkey are politically persecuted and, in any case, the terrorists write of
the Armenian citizens of Turkey as "not real Armenians," because they are
willingly part of the Turkish Republic. If Armenian terrorists really wished
to free their brothers from political bondage, they would be directing their
attacks toward Russia, not Turkey.

Thus it is obvious that Armenian terrorism does not have a realizeable
political goal. Stripped of abstract political rhetoric and ingenious
clamorings for a "return" to Erzurum or Harput, Armenian terrorism is purely
a product of the desire for revenge.

The crimes for which the Armenians blame the Turks are numerous and varied,
including all the villanies attributable to man, but two claims are of
paramount importance Turkish refusal to accept an Armenian state in Eastern
Anatolia and the supposed Turkish genocide of 1.5 million or more Armenians
during and after World War 1.

These are historical claims. They are unquestioningly accepted as true not
only by Armenians, but by the majority of citizens of Western Europe and
America. They are also the reason that Armenian terrorism, including the
murder of absolutely innocent diplomats and others, has caused so little
moral outrage among non-Armenians. Because of these historical claims,
Armenian terrorism is viewed as justifiable vengeance, not murder.

Treating Armenian terrorism by hunting down terrorists and checking for bombs
at embassy doors is necessary, but it is also treating the symptoms while the
disease remains. As long as children are taught to hate their ancestors'
enemies, the seeds of terrorism will live on. The foundation of Armenian
terrorism is bad history. In the end, only good history will cure the
disease.

There is no time here to consider in detail the history of the Ottoman
Armenians. Much of the history of the Armenians is, in any case, not known.
One of the tragedies of scholarship on the Middle East is that independent
historians have long avoided the Armenian Question. Studying the Armenians
potentially brought with it little praise and much loss. I must admit that
my own intention was not to study Armenians. As a demographer I was fascinated
by the fact that histories of the Ottoman Empire had been written for 300 years,
but no one had an accurate idea of who actually had lived in the Empire. I
began studying the population of Ottoman Anatolia to find how many Anatolians
were in each of the millets and what had actually happened to the Anatolians
in the course of the wars that ended the Ottoman Empire. I first discovered
that something was wrong with the accepted wisdom on the Armenians when I
found that many more Anatolian Muslims had died than Armenians. That did not
seem to be genocide.


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