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Article: Armenia resolution is a disaster
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- October 16, 2007
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What were they thinking? No doubt members of the House Foreign
Relations Committee felt righteous about the nonbinding resolution
they passed last week condemning World War I massacres of Armenians
in Ottoman Turkey as "genocide." They sloughed off the warnings from
Turkey, which rejects the genocide charge.
Several 90-something Armenian ladies who survived the massacres
were in attendance in wheelchairs. Democratic legislators from states
such as California and New Jersey with large Armenian constituencies
were pressing Speaker Nancy Pelosi to push the resolution. Everyone
cloaked themselves in high moral purpose.
Yet this is a case of self-proclaimed moral intentions run amok.