Today.Az » Politics » Vague future of "ancient" Armenian people
10 May 2008 [10:07] - Today.Az
It is Armenians' favorite business to speak about their antiquity.
And they speak about it with pleasure, passionately and boringly elaborating on various, including tragic details. They have turned Christianity into paranoia, mostly, targeting against their brethren.People, who demand their recognition as the "first" Christian state (which is not true, however), forget the main bases of religion, such as "do not kill", "do not steal" and "love your neighbor" too easily.
Anyway, we will not speak about the past. Even if we admit that the Armenians' statements about their antiquity point the long history of the people, which should not be rejected, but the contrast between the statements of their "great past" and today's crisis of Armenia should make any man of sense ponder over it.
On the background of successful regional cooperation between Azerbaijan and Georgia, not speaking of the economic growth of both Azerbaijan and Turkey, the state of Armenia, which stuck in its genocidal history, is too poor. Will the Armenian parents continue explaining their children the lower living conditions as compared with Azerbaijan and Georgia and desertion of the country by historical deeds of different and always anti-Armenian neighbors? We would like to believe that they will not, though this has become their stable tradition to complain. By the way, Armenians start to infect their neighbors with this and a complex of "a victim" has become fashionable in both Azerbaijan and Georgia.
In fact, the problem of Armenia, as of any other country, is not in the past or external enemies, but in the choice, which Armenian people have done and continue to do, preferring the myth of chauvinism to their own future. Armenia, unlike its neighbors and almost all the former USSR countries, remained an ethnic fragment, but not an independent state. Naturally, the ethnic group with a strong feeling of paranoia differs from the society, which builds an independent state system, with its outlook. The tragedy of such a situation is that the policy, based on narrow ethnic interests is in fact suicidal, as it deteriorates conditions of paranoia, looking only in the past and fully ignoring the future and the present.
Azerbaijan understood that such policy leads to a deadlock in the result of Armenian aggression and occupation of Azerbaijani lands, which made Armenia dependent on foreign countries. It seems that Armenians themselves also realized that the situation leads to a deadlock on the day of brutal dispersal of demonstrations in Yerevan. No "ancient" history or external enemies will explain why in March of 2008 Armenians killed Armenians in Yerevan. Of course, another church could be built on the money of Diaspora and blame could be shifted on evil-Turks, but there were too many witnesses and the work was too clumsy, which is usual for the Kocharyan-Sarkissyan's clan...
It was banal that radicals among Armenians started to seek for an external enemy. Azerbaijanis were blamed for the provocations on the front line immediately after the bloodshed in Yerevan and Diaspora groups again started to speak about the "militarization" of Azerbaijan. No doubt, the "hoaxes" about the possible recognition of Armenian separatists of Karabakh (though, they need no recognition, as they have already occupied the whole Armenia) and other provocative announcements of some Armenian politicians have the only purpose-to distract attention from internal crisis in the country.
By setting a task to provoke Azerbaijan, Armenian strategists will further toughen their statements and aggressiveness of actions, whether it is a "pilgrimage" to Karabakh or the disgraceful celebration of the ethnic cleansing of Shusha. Certainly, Armenians, who got used to external dependence, will simultaneously make various foreign politicians and NGOs speak against Azerbaijan.
The absurd and untimely criticism, addressed to Azerbaijan by politicians, who were silent about the chaos in Armenia, can please some Armenian radicals. For western politicians such hypocrisy can help behave as they do now. Double standards can not change only the realities of the present-day Armenia and lead the confused country out of the deadlock.
Sometimes, one comes to believe to the western experts, who said that bloodshed in Yerevan caused no reaction as Armenia is of insignificant strategic importance and the West mostly does not care about it. It means that politicians, depending on the diaspora, considered that if such events in the country are suitable for the Armenian diaspora, they need not care too much about it. The strategic importance of Azerbaijan and Georgia does not allow such indifference to their future, while the whole strategic importance of Armenia is its Diaspora. So, one may feel sorry for Armenia, but this is the reality of external independence...
We would like to believe that paranoia and the outlook, which deepens it, will not last long, otherwise Armenia will stick to its isolation and will further disturb our region. The "ancient" people should ponder over their future and take lessons from their "ancient" history.
/Day.Az/
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