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Re: Longrigg...part two
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, April 1 2013, 11:34:09 (UTC)
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Thank you...I am never offended when challenged and I assure you you didn't offend me. Regarding Agha Poutrous my concern was never with the man's personal courage, just his judgement To work with the British, to accept their pay and weapons, against your own country, was a serious mistake. After the war it was not the assyrians of Iraq who demanded a country of their own, but the ones who ran to Iraq from Turkey and Iran because they were chased out of their own countries for taking the side of the foreign armies attacking their countries.

If, during World War II, any American-assyrians, or any Americans, had taken pay and weapons from the Japanese to fight America, they would have been shot as traitors to their country...assyrians say "Assyria" is their country, not Iraq or Turkey, even though they live and work and pay taxes there...so, to them, "my country" isn't the actual country they live in and which you can find on any map, it's an imaginary place which only exists in their heads....Agha Poutrous, and my grandfather, were traitors to their own countries, on behalf of the British. Our people have done this sort of thing many times; believing "promises" from foreign nations and occupiers, turning against the actual countries they live in...now, I am sure they would never do that to America or Australia...but they seem to have no problem betraying their neighbors and the governments they live among in the MidEast...in Muslim countries.

And to show just how foolish and costly this sort of thing has been for us, our side WON in that war..and we got nothing...nothing except the increased hatred, justifiably so, of our neighbors, the people we had to live among when the foreigners were gone...and we made that same mistake this time around...again we took the side of the foreign occupying enemies of our countries...and again THEY won and WE lost. Taking this path we will always lose...and it's a path Agha Poutrous took.



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