We Denounce Your Denouncement!

The Big WorldGeekLethal

For reasons that are unclear to me, the House’s Foreign Affairs Committee has agreed that the Ottoman Empire’s treatment of Armenians after Dubya Dubya The First was genocide. Well, close enough to actual (?) genocide so as to be tantamount to genocide. I think.

I’m not sure why this discussion even has to take place today, as opposed to anytime in the intervening 80 years between the events described and, say, the third Sunday in March, but that’s where we are with it.

Predictably, the Turks are annoyed by this vote; Turkish PM Gul going so far as to call the decision “unacceptable” and their ambassador saying something about it damaging the Turkish psyche. Now that’s pretty good stuff, but I will save discussion of the apparent ease with which a minor foreign government committee can send the entirety of the fragile Turkish consciousness into existential crisis another day.

What I keyed in on was the word “unacceptable”, which got me thinking about other things that They have found “unacceptable” about Us. I’ll start; feel free to add your own:

-Russia, and our complete Bill of Rights

-France, and our cheeseburgers

-The Entire Muslim World, and our sense of humor

-China, and our hippies

-Canada, and our everything

-England, and our iced tea

-Yemen, and our hot chicks

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