The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5
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Reading a book titled "A Peace to End All Peace" by Boston University professor David Fromkin I came across this...by the way, a clever rephrasing of that bit of nonsense about WW I that it was the "War to End All War"...incidentally the book is about the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.....we hear so much about how the Turks murdered all those people, who actually died of starvation, not persecution...unless you call persecution what the European Powers had been doing to each other and everyone else for the past 200 years...anyway..this paragraph discusses the effects on the Turkish economy, which was overwhelmingly agricultural, of so many men being taken by the armed forces to defend Ottoman lands from European powers... " Bringing in the manpower from the countryside ruined what would have been the bountiful harvest of 1914. It set a terrible pattern:throughout the war, the draft of men and pack animals brought famine in good years as well as bad. During the war years, the supply of draft animals fell, horses to 40 percent and oxen and buffaloes to 15 percent of what they had been. The shrinkage in agricultural activity was equally dramatic: cereal acreage was cut in half, and cotton fell to 8 percent of its prewar production level." p. 122 Now when has the JAAS ever had an article about starvation or the numbers of horses and oxen during the war years in Turkey, and what that meant in practical terms...like how do you work the plows, and wagons that bring in crops? When did Aprim ever bother with such details? rather he and the rest are busy pulling persecution stories out of their collective arses for Taco to weep over. We know through the devastating effects of Sanctions imposed by Christian nations on Iraq what can happen to a civilian population. According to every respected international humanitarian agency over 700,000 Iraqi children , under the age of five, died as a direct result of Christian Sanctions, either through outright starvation or from previously easy to cure diseases...when did a Muslim nation EVER do such a thing? Starvation in Turkey during the war years was even worse. And THAT's how all those Christians died, but once again, Christians are trying to smear Muslims with their own crimes, claiming that GENOCIDE killed all those people...because they can't stand it that the ONLY group of people to have ever committed Genocide on a massive scale in the modern era was CHRISTIANS...the same fucking Christians who brought war to the Ottomans in 1914, bringing starvation to the civilian population, as they would again in Iraq years later. These are all CHRISTIAN crimes, not Muslims...and it is consistent with the way Christians operate that they seek to slander the people THEY persecute and murder by way of excusing and obscuring their crimes. --------------------- |
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