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1. well done karine. very good, thought provoking article.

2. “As an American, I’d never felt close to or threatened by warfare-a strange notion, considering I hail from one of the most militant and aggressive countries in the world.”

   Actually, the United States is by far the most militant and aggressive country in the world today. Committing acts of aggression against other countries, who do not agree with America’s imperialistic ambitions, is something that’s very standard within the U.S. government’s foreign policy agenda. Instead of spending a large portion of its national budget on improving the health of the rapidly deteriorating American nation, the extremely militant U.S. government would much rather spend this money on building more bombs, missiles, and other kinds of ridiculous military weapons to be used against puny countries which do not pose the slightest military threat against America. And then after all of that, the U.S. government shamelessly crowns itself as being the “human rights leader” of the world. This is indeed horribly shameful!

3. It is very courageous of you, Ms. Vann, to publish this balanced and informative article.
   If we really love that piece of land that we call Hayreniq, and want to live there, we have no reasonable choice but to find an honorable way to live peacefully with all our neighbors.

4. In a nutshell, undoubtably, there are Azeris who are decent and don’t have hatred towards Armenians and are not pursuing the elimination of Armenia. But I don’t know what percentage tif Azeri population they constitute. But unfortunately, the percentage of Azeris who want to see the destruction of Armenia is high and that mentality is reflected in their government. And that’s what Armenia has to contend with.

5. Karine,
   You lost me after your first few sentences. Armenia is unfortunately located in a place like the south Caucasus and has neighbors like Turks and Tatars (Azeris). Yes, Armenia has no choice but to live with this reality. And yes, sooner or later, Armenia has to living peacefully with all its nehighbors. But, the problem is not with us Armenians it’s with Turks and Tatars. So, your priorities are a bit misplaced. First, Turks and Tatars need to become civilized. Then, we’ll then talk about neighborly relations. Until then, Turks and Tatars pose an existential threat to Armenia. So, “kumbaya” articles such as this only services to mislead our people in front of these two very dangerous enemies.

6. Reaching peace is one thing and is a good objective but people should not be deluded into thinking that Armenians and Azeris can live harmoniously in the same community. It’s already been tried — in the Soviet union — and it failed miserably.

7. Aliev and his government are warmongers and like many of the new “Independant Republics” of the former Soviet Union they “loot and rape their countries financially, economically, politically and in every other way they can.” In Azerbaijan’s case Aliev to divert the attention of the Azerbaijani people from his above actions, and “no thanks” to Azerbaijan’s petrodollars they have bought and are buying billions of dollars of weapons for aggressive not defensive purposes and sadly even Russia our ally is helping them with the excuse that if we don’t sell, others will. In addition, Aliev and his government are blaming Armenia and Armenians for every mishap in Azerbaijan and continuously and aggressively propagating hatred towards Armenia, Artsakh and Armenians; and unfortunately many if not the majority of the Azerbaijanis are getting brainwashed. I agree that if possible we should pursue to have dialogue with the people and involve not only the young but also the relatively old who cohabited with Armenians during the Soviet times and had Armenian friends and some who even had Armenian spouses. At the same time we should always be alert and ready in case dialogues and negotiations fail.

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