A title of a news article is not really a personal claim.

 This was the title of the Blog Ros linked too - not her comment.  However, as peacetrain said a ´personal comment´ would have avoided confusion here.  I recently got shouted down by certain people for daring to ask if people could add a personal comment to articles they posted!

LIR, I share your unpopular opinion that all kinds of articles should nclude a personal comment - actually I bet this is what our Forum Rules say. We all can google, what´s the point of posting what we´ve googled if we don´t have anything to say about it?

 Thank god it isn´t. We all would claim really strange things from time to time if titles of news articles would be our personal claims.

Roswitha, why did you delete the blog you quoted? You could have add a comment.

What is the big fuss about this incident?

Your country has sold many weapons to all sorts of countries in the past..

Including Taliban, Iran, Saudi arabia etc..

You think I will add something after having been insulted by Longinotti, no way. He can jump in the lake. I only respond to true gentlemen, and there are quite a number here among the Turks in TLC and also a sweet man from the USA.  

  Worry not about silly insults Roswitha , they are not worth the time of day. There

should be no room for that kind of wanton banter. I never respond to grade school

antics nor should you.

  I know you are from the USA, and that you had to flee your homeland in Europe

from Russian invasion. I know you and your family lost much when you were a mere

small child. I too am from the USA, and I have family in our Armed Forces and proud of

them.  I am with you my sister....

  Chin up Lady_R...! You´ve much to be proud of !

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 The point would have been to post something BEFORE longinotti said anything to you.  And when you enter the same content in 4 seperate posts without personal comment, it seems a natural conclusion that it is YOUR opinion.  You shouldn´t be surprised by getting a reaction.

Anyway, as I have stated before it would be more interesting to know your thoughts on all these links and articles you post.  They must mean something to you right?  I mean, most people don´t just post any old thing they run across unless they have an opinion on it. 

When I posted my response to Long´s abrupt comment I hadn´t seen any other posts by Ros.  I´m not sure if he had either otherwise he would have said so instead of giving the replym to me, that he did.

Ros isn´t the only one who posts articles without comment.  I tend to view Ros´s postings as "News Flashes" rather than "statements" , about seemingly important events. 

I think this incident is being blown up out of all proportion.

Granted PT..........It has.....I didn´t mean to labor the issue.....

I was simply referring more to the lack of respect UPON issuing a comment...

....nothing more.

Ros has always been an avenue of vast knowledge for me, not just in TC and Turkish

affairs, but everything in general. For me , she simply places topics out there for

discussion or comment.....Once again nothing more.

I find her a ´ splendid source of information about many things´, an intelligent

individual, a good person, and her songs are pretty cool too ! 

I´m sure we all agree that we must simply remember not to lose respect for her .....

.....or eachother while in TC.

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