Glass House

Someone should send the Turkish government a copy of Ward Churchill's amazing book, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens.

Turkey is fuming after the United States Congress voted to formally declare their massacres of Armenians in 1915 a genocide. The US Congress though was right in declaring that this was a genocide. Turkey shouldn't pretend it didn't happen and really what damage does this declaration do? Those Armenians are still very dead and Armenians will never be powerful enough to win reparations or return the favour.

The US though should take a good, long look in the mirror and to their history. Compared with the orgiastic genocides perpetrated by the US, Turkey's extermination of the Armenians is a church social. A review of Churchill's book will make the case and I encourage you, dear reader, to take it out of the library.

While the Armenian people live on, the US purposely and utterly annihilated many First Nations such that their only memory lives on in place names if at all. Genocides are genocides and the US Congress should really begin to admit its beloved state's terrible violence.

The blinkers of empire, however, will make this honesty impossible. In the meantime Turkey, condemn the US in return for their countless atrocities. An eye for an eye, sadly, seems the only language any violent state (and all states are inherently violent) understands.