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ARF and Armenia: How to Withstand the Challenges of the Future?
Below are the comments delivered by David Grigorian (Senior Fellow, Policy Forum Armenia) at the public forum titled “The ARF at 120: A Critical Appreciation,” held at the New York Hilton Hotel on Nov. 21, 2010. Click here for the comments delivered by the other panelists and the response of ARF Central Committee chair Antranig Kasbarian.
Recent past: A snapshot
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Any similar analysis for other parties?
The author starts by providing a simple bar chart of the ARF’s share of the popular vote during the last 3 elections in Armenia, which he admits were rigged, yet without any proof, he conveniently declares that the elections were not rigged for the ARF data. Then he proceeds to list a series of actions taken or not taken by the ARF that he calls ‘blunders’ without showing any cause to effect between the shoddy ‘data’ he provides and the so-called ‘blunders’ he accuses the ARF of committing.
Comes to mind, again: Theodore Roosevelt’s IN THE ARENA (in effect)
When you are IN THE ARENA you doing your best, but even when you err, even you fail, you are secure knowing that you are IN THE ARENA, too, you will stay IN THE ARENA.
Manooshag