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=> To Show Good Faith

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Sunday, February 18 2007, 1:58:01 (CET)
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To Show Good Faith

The one thing all of these parties are achieving is turning the most of us away in disgust…if this is not their real “national agenda” then I suggest we need to make a sea-change in attitude and direction even more. It’s way too early to be discussing the “next time”…there isn’t anything taking place in Iraq right now or for the foreseeable future that any of us can do anything about…I don’t care how we unite…it simply isn’t in the cards, the way they’re stacked.

Iraq’s democracy is the American kind where the winner takes all…it isn’t the Parliamentary kind like Britain, Canada or even Israel where many parties can exist because a smaller one can become the power broker and deal maker by throwing its numbers to the near-majority. Even if all Assyrians united into one big party…what could they do?

The Basques of Spain as the Catholics of Ireland have asked for centuries for special rights as the indigenous people of their countries...and they have received nothing but bullets and jail. We have even less numbers or potential clout…which Islamic party is going to want to be known as having made concessions to Christians to defeat another Muslim party? And if we’re now going to say, “but fella’s, we ain’t Assyrian no even Christian, we’re IRAQI”, well then we aren’t worth much to anybody, elast of all ourselves.

All we can do as a Christian minority party is vote and vote and vote year after year after year for what we want…and if that makes us feel like we achieved something…okay. But it cost us Kurdistan.

But since we’re not ready anyway, and never really were…I suggest all these activists and politicians and intellectuals show their good faith by agreeing to gather in one forum, open to all with no rules whatsoever and see who’s left standing…who cares enough to keep his eyes on the prize, who gets easily offended and leaves etc.

It’s ridiculous for us to be telling the people of Iraq to “come together”…and fighting as we say it. Where do we get off? Why can’t they be as pugnacious, as combative, irrational and irreconcilable as we are…right here in America and the West? And they have a war going on now for 18 years while we have nothing to use as an excuse…except that each of us is right, because he says so…and everyone else just has to see the “truth” and become like us.

We may arrive, in time, to a working and workable definition of what the best is we can do for our Heritage and country…which is Iraq and not Assyria or, now, Kurdistan. And if it is inclusive and not delivered in harangues and “communique’s” and isn’t poured out in “streams”…then it may be possible that a large enough number of Assyrians could be willing to sign on…especially if we want the brighter bulbs and not the perennial dummies who are all for grabbing Assyria NOW…while they have no clue how to do it except to start out, like the Ottoman heirs to the throne, by first killing all their brethren who might dispute the succession.

No one can honestly accuse me or this forum or the people who write here of being “enemies” to anything, certainly not to Assyria. We’re the only forum, for the last seven years, that’s been completely free and open…to insults, ideas, argument and anything else…while the rest have shut out any who disagree with the administration…forcing us all to fragment into forums who won’t speak to each other etc.

And we need to travel to Iraq to “unify”…or express our national whatevers, when we can’t do it in forums here and now? And if our condition for speaking “freely” is that no one can make a counter-argument or point out flaws or inconsistencies but must take each person’s idea “as is” or as revealed scripture, then there’s no chance anyway, no need to travel to Iraq or Europe or Stockholm and no good-faith and all one can conclude is that some among us like to hear themselves make great speeches without caring for even minor results.

No wonder whenever one group of Assyrians is invited to represent us, everyone else shows up on the steps to the United Nations and starts punching and yelling that THEY are the only true representatives of Assyria...the same crowd who insist that only Christians are the REAL Assyrians.

Of course, we all know why there are so many parties, each with ten cousins in them…because there is no unity and never has been… people haven’t the vaguest notion how you conduct yourself in politics, because all their lives they’ve stayed away from entering “Muslim” politics...because they’d have had to compromise with “them”.

They won’t risk coming together in a free and open forum because, first of all, everyone will be able to hear them and read them and compare them to others and ask questions of both…questions everyone else will be expecting coherent answers to…and once they’ve cursed each other and found all it gets them is curses right back, and that the rest of us are watching and seeing that aside from cursing there is no program at all…while another group is discussing our history and assumptions and culture and condition etc…that the others are taking themselves out of fruitful discussion and are boring everyone…at which time they may well leave to form another forum and call everyone else “traitors” and “Kurds” and go madly spinning off into space again…but the rest of us MIGHT resolve some issues and be able to make a coherent statement about the Heritage, as a whole, and how best to proceed to apply the few resources we have plus appeal, in a sane and civilized manner, to the governments we live among…such as the Armenians do who get millions annually from the United States Congress for Armenian-based programs.

Those who refuse to really come together, without making conditions first are the serious ones of proven good-will, the rest are what they are now and always have been; Opportunists.

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