[wideawake]

The Turks are clowns. They can be useful clowns at times, but they are still clowns.

[dennisw]

The Turks are clowns. They can be useful clowns at times, but they are still clowns.

Muhammad was a buffoon. A psycho killer buffoon

[Zionist Conspirator]

Ironically, Turkey has long been a favorite of conservatives just as the Arabs have been historically been, and conservative hostility towards the Greeks and Armenians as much a part of conservative "orthodoxy" as hostility to Israel. How delicious that the liberal ADL is in trouble for holding to a historically conservative position.

I used to be a member of the John Birch Society and I can assure FReepers that it was always the Turks who were supported vis a vis the Greeks and Armenians. Greek Cypriots were accused of massacreing Turkish Cypriots, Archbishop Makarios III was called a "leftist," and one of their magazines ran a headline "Grecophile in Congress." As for the Armenians, they have long been "the Jews of chr*stendom."

All that being said, it is undeniable that Turkey has been a better friend to America and Israel than Greece (which is very anti-American and anti-Israel) and that both the Greek- and Armenian-American communities seem to have a hard-left orientation.

The Armenian Church is a purely ethnic church with little theology (despite its beautiful liturgy) and a great deal of nationalism and victimology (sort of the liturgical equivalent of Black Baptists).

I don't really have a dog in this fight, so I think I'll air pop some popcorn, take a seat, and watch the fun!