My next column will be on the Armenian genocide resolution and the debate surrounding it, so I won’t pre-empt myself with more commentary before I go to Toronto. However, James Bovard makes many of the right points:
It’s a helluva thing when a war on terror supposedly requires the U.S. Congress to pretend that genocide didn’t occur. Bush’s assertion that “we all deeply regret the tragic suffering of the Armenian people” is a lie. Most people either don’t know or don’t care about the carnage. And Bush apparently wants to keep it that way.
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October 12th, 2007 at 10:13 am
Seamus
If anyone has any business passing a resolution acknowledging the Armenian genocide, it’s the *Turkish* parliament, not ours. I have a hard time seeing why Congress, which hasn’t yet passed any of the current year’s appropriations bills, needs to be going out of its way to gratuitously poke Turkey in the eye, unless it has something to do with currying favor from Armenian-American voters. But while we’re at it, why don’t we condemn the Bulgarian Atrocities of 1876-77? After all, Gladstone did, and if Congress didn’t do so too, wasn’t that a grievous oversight? (Or maybe there aren’t enough Bulgarian-American voters for it to matter.)
October 12th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
bsebse
I would prefer we stop declaring genocides and close down the holocaust museum. But, for people who bow at the religion of holocaustism to oppose this measure does not make sense.
If I were the Turks I would just declare the European settling of America is another Holocaust.