Posted March 29, 2002

Break the Stranglehold

Regarding ... [Justin Raimondo's] column, "Our Hijacked Foreign Policy":

Chris Matthews is discovering what people on the Old Right such as yourself have known for a long time: that our best chance for winning the "war against terrorism" as well as for promoting peace, prosperity, and liberty in America and the world is if we break the stranglehold the neocons have upon the government and the institutions of the Right.

~ OM

Letter to Horowitz

I have wanted to write a reasoned criticism of the one-sidedness of our middle east policy with respect to the Israeli Palestinian conflict for sometime. It is so disproportionate, and I am a supporter and admirer of Israel. But they are not now acting in a way that rewards our friendship and our politicians are dangerously timid in confronting the ugly realities of the disproportionality that exists there.

Thanks to McConnell, I feel much less urgency to write to Horowitz along these lines. What a great letter. Thanks McConnell.

~ William W.

Krajina Scenario in the Caucasus

As a faithful and regular reader of J. Raimondo's articles and editorials, I would like, firstly, to express my support for his ideas... In his latest article ["Our Hijacked Foreign Policy"] there is mention of those forces who want liquidation of the Palestinian population of the occupied territories....

I would like to attract Mr Raimondo's attention to ... a similar plan presently studied by certain forces at the US State Department. It is the plan to liquidate the Armenian Karabagh ("Artskakh" in Armenian) from its Armenian indigenous population.... The State Department has already adopted the Azeri version of history, which is falsified and contrary to historical facts. Historical facts point to a continued Armenian demographic, cultural, political presence in that part of the Southern Caucasus, substantiated by the centuries-old Armenian historical monuments of the area: churches, monasteries, inscriptions, cemeteries, fortresses of Armenian princes, stone crosses etc. (According to the Azeri Turkish version, Azeris 'emigrated' from those territories when Russians took over these lands, in 1828, from the Iranian Empire, and they were replaced by Armenians who thus constituted the majority afterwards.)

Armenian presence can be proven not only from Armenian sources, but also from Ancient Greek, Iranian, Arab, Byzantine and later on from European and Russian sources. However, the State Department had the dishonesty to adopt the Azeri version. Therefore, Armenians 'occupied ' Azeri territories -- while in reality they liberated parts of their ancestral homeland. And now, according to some reliable sources from the Armenian community in the US, some forces in the US State Department want to see Armenia and Armenian Karabagh destroyed. Under the guise of training Azeri units against anti-terrorist activities, efforts are being made to prepare the Azeri army for a war against the Armenians, thus to create a second Krajina scenario in the Caucasus, preparing the way to liquidate another Armenian territory from its ... original population.

This anti-Armenian plot must be divulged, the forces behind it must be identified and American public opinion must be informed about the criminal activities of those ... responsible personalities, who go around committing crimes against other peoples, in the name of 'US interests'. A future crime against the Armenians of Karabagh can thus prevented.

~ Antranig B., Canada

Feel Better

In response to Jim Monroe's letter of March 27, 2002:

I, also, have contacted AVOT via e-mail. However, my letter was definitely not as polite or cordial as Mr. Monroe's. I accused Mr. Bennett and others in his organization of extremely questionable animal husbandry practices and dubious parentage. I encourage all individuals who need to blow off steam over this pointless war to do the same. You'll feel a little better afterwards, I guarantee it.

~ Kyle B.

Curious Car Bomb

Mr. Margolis' articles are usually very interesting, but ... ["Cowboy President Rides to the Rescue"] was quite a disappointment. Besides gullible, he sounded a little 'name dropping' -- given the fact that Alan Garcia is universally considered the sure winner of the next elections [in Peru].

AG acts and is treated as a prince in waiting. But, more important to me is the fact that although he is no angel, there is no denying that he is more in tune with the people's immediate needs than Toledo, the darling of the leftist journalists and bureaucrats worldwide, the "shoeshine boy" who first traveled to the US with friends in the Peace Corps.

It seems nobody -- not even Mr. Margolis -- has stopped to draw up some kind of logical hypothesis to explain this 'curious' car bomb, after years without such attacks, in the vicinity of the US embassy but not really near, two days before Bush's arrival, which no 'terrorist' is claiming as his. (Quite the opposite.) Now you have everybody, sort-of-wealthy or almost-starving, thanking Mr. Bush for helping Peru fight terrorism. "No, they aren't exactly military bases, just technical support," said a newsman the other day -- and, has anybody noticed that the Peace Corps is on its way down?

As to Mr. Margolis' statement that growing instability and violence in LA will challenge war on Iraq, my impression is quite the opposite.

~ EM

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Just found your website. Wow! Your address has been e-mailed to all the people in my mailing list. Thanks for the good work.

~ BC