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I should have said excluding Turks of coarse. Whatever they look like: celtic slavic, armenian, or greek, a turd is a turd.

While I have no problems with Chinese, I'd rather keep the Armenians within the Caucausoid race. I've seen many Serbs, Greeks, and Croats who would not look out of place amongst Armenians.

I thought Serbs and Croats are the same people. They were just aliented because Croats were ruled and influenced by Rome while Serbs, by Constantinople. Are they Armenian? I can't understant anything on that page . The more Armenians, the better . Are Greeks Armenian too? he he.

Hmm, i never heard that before. Weren't the ancient Parthian and Armenian armeis fairly conventional forces? They employed cavalry as well as infantry. I wasn't aware of the horse-archer unit which is what the Seljuks and Mongols used. Mongolian foes had a pretty tough time dealing with the horse-archer and the feigned withdrawl that they employed.

I read a book on the Crusades a while back. It talked about some pre-crusade events like the The Battle of Manzikert and the distinct mention I remember was the quote "There was treachery afoot." Another book I read was about war strategies and the history of warfare. I was reading about the Mongol style of feigned withdrawl. The Seljuks used the exact same Mongoloid style of fighting. It mentioned engagements between Byzatine Cataphracts (spelling?) and Seljuk horsemen. The Cataphracts had a pretty tough time because the Seljuks would simply fire a hail of arrows and use their speed to reatreat from advancing Cataphracts. Once the Byzantine Army is exhausted and and diminshed the Seljuks would engage. The Byzantines drew up a strict military doctrine that forbade the Byzantine Army from persuing the Seljuks unless they can be pushed towards a natural barrier like a river. This would force the Seljuks into close-quater fighting where they would be no match for the Byzantines. A Catastrophic defeat happened when this doctrine was ignored.

I'm not sure if it is more appropriate to post in this thread or open a new thread. I would like to get some input concerning the Indo-European homeland. I have heard different theories and I think any theories that say the original Indo-European homeland is in Europe or Southern Russia can dissmissed in light of the more recent archaeological finds. I have been doing some googling, and found this interesting website: http://www.armenianhighland.com/homeland/chronicle120.html Here it says the Armenian plateu ,around the Van-Sevan-Urmia regions, is the Indo-European homeland. And here is the map of Aryan migration shown on the website: http://www.armenianhighland.com/images/illustration125.jpg Another theory I have heard is that Indo-European/Indo-Iranian speaking peoples came from the area of Modern day Iran and moved westward and eastward into Armenia, Greece, India, Afganistan and Central Asia. Here is something I found that challenges Armenia as the Indo-European homeland: What do you guys think? Do you have any additional interesting sources to read up on? I think that Gamkrelidze and Ivanov are pretty convincing considering this family tree of Indo-European languages: http://www.armenianhighland.com/images/illustration122.jpg One can see the the Aryano-Greco-Armenic as one of the first languages that stemmed from the proto indo-european. The languages spoken in india came later.

Yep. There needs to be a major policy shift though and I'm not very optimistic about that happening any time soon.

While Mr. Brzezinski has his "Grand" Chess game to play, Armenians have a chess game of their own to play. And we are pretty good at chess . I don't know about favors, the importance is that Anatolia is a gateway. Just like the Balkans is a strategically important area for NATO, so is Turkey, so is the Caucasus.

I'd prefer mullahs over some pro-Zionist entity.

Iran gave a retort to Israel's threats recently and said they would destroy Israel if attacked. Here is an interesting read. I don't know how factual this information is. I think it is possible that much of this information is hearsay combined with wishful thinking of the author's part, but I would not dismiss it either. http://joevialls.altermedia.info/myahudi/sunburn.html This deals with a lot more than just Iran. If Iran is trying to develop nukes (and I think they are), I fully support it. Having a nuclear ally is not a bad thing at all.

I agree with you that it is unlikely as things stand today. America wants to chase the Bear out of the Caucausus, however. If that happens Armenia is all by herself surrounded by Turks. Nobody is as important as Turkey in the current state-department policy. What are the guarantees that Western powers will protect Armenia from Turkish incursions? If Russia is chased out of the Caucasus, Armenia will be left by herself. The Western powers will be too far, while Yerevan is so close to the Turkish border. Also, from past examples we can see that Armenia cannot trust the US because when it comes to Turkey the US will let them get away with bloody murder as the Cyprus example showed. Check out this article: Genocide Acknowledgment: Why Turkey and the State Department Fear It From the article:

Azerbaijan wants NATO to intervene on their side.

Thank you for the Welcomes! No TK, I'm not Georgian, I'm Armenian.

There is a reason why Jews and Muslims practice child mutilation. Brutal religions --> Brutal practices.