NO REASON TO PANIC
Editorial
Yerkir/arm
March 10, 2006
The opinions and interpretations on the Karabagh settlement expressed
by the Armenian leadership and especially in president Robert
Kocharian’s last TV interview raised a wide range of responses both
inside and outside of Armenia.
The reaction of the Azeri leadership and media was no news since
it was in line with the anti-Armenian hysteria prevailing in this
country. Meanwhile, the reactions of some of our politicians and
observers seem to acquire some new coloring.
You get an impression that the Azeri hysteria has mutated and
influenced some of our politicians giving them another opportunity
to express their anti-government sentiments.
This is the only explanation to this situation when people who never
responded to any anti-Armenian statements made by Azerbaijan and
its calls to settle the conflict through another war have suddenly
started panicking because the Armenian president has answered: we
are not scared of a war, we don’t want a war but we can counter the
enemy both on the diplomatic and on the military fronts.
Eight years ago an attempt was made to confuse our society telling it
that the ‘party of war’ had come to power in Armenia. Then an attempt
was made to convince the society that the same ‘party of war’ was
‘selling’ Karabagh.
Now they are yelling that there is going to be another war.
These people cannot and do not want to understand that by not being
scared of militaristic statements we can prevent the war easier. They
fail to understand that the other side will be having problems with
its war propaganda when it sees that it cannot scare us, that we are
ready to remind them about the events of the recent past.
These people seem to not understand that by such panic they become
a tool in the information war against their own nation. At times of
eminent threats people tend to go to extremes: some start panicking,
others act as ‘blind patriots’. Things happen.
But the strangest thing is to see that some people try to be more
Catholic than the Pope, more democratic than Soros, more dashnak
than the ARF, and more Karabaghian than Robert Kocharian, they want
to look more constructive than anyone else. As a result, they reveal
their true face which in this case is that of a panic-monger.