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    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.
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