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CONGRESS SHOULD REJECT THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION
by Chuck Morse
Post Chronicle
http://www.postchronicle.com/commentary/ article_212109264.shtml
Oct 15 2007
In deciding whether to support the Armenian Genocide Resolution, the
US Congress must consider the ramifications. Congress is being asked
to symbolically recognize the genocide committed by Turkey against
its indigenous Christian Armenian population almost 100 years ago. In
this case, the moral high ground should give way to considerations of
realpolitik. Congress should reject the resolution at this time. It
is not in America's interest to offend our Turkish allies.
America is at war both in Iraq, bordering Turkey, and against
international Islamic jihadism. Turkey is a Muslim ally in these
efforts, crucial to the future of freedom in the western democracies.
The government of Turkey today, moderate and democratic by Muslim
standards, is no more culpable for the historic genocide against
the Armenians than is the present government of Germany culpable for
Hitler's Holocaust against the Jews of Europe. This is not the time
to alienate Turkey.
This would not be the first time America would be expected to place
short term political and strategic considerations over broader
questions of morality. The most notorious case of America choosing
politics over morality in foreign affairs was the World War II
alliance between America and Stalin's Soviet Union. To defeat Hitler,
we allied ourselves with a left-wing Soviet regime that was as bad,
if not a worse, than the Nazi enemy. By the time of the US-Soviet
alliance, 1941, the left-wing Soviets, first under Lenin and than under
Stalin, had already liquidated millions of innocent people with forced
starvations and firing squads. It was the communist Soviets who first
set up the concentration camps that would be imitated by the Nazis.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
by Chuck Morse
Post Chronicle
http://www.postchronicle.com/commentary/ article_212109264.shtml
Oct 15 2007
In deciding whether to support the Armenian Genocide Resolution, the
US Congress must consider the ramifications. Congress is being asked
to symbolically recognize the genocide committed by Turkey against
its indigenous Christian Armenian population almost 100 years ago. In
this case, the moral high ground should give way to considerations of
realpolitik. Congress should reject the resolution at this time. It
is not in America's interest to offend our Turkish allies.
America is at war both in Iraq, bordering Turkey, and against
international Islamic jihadism. Turkey is a Muslim ally in these
efforts, crucial to the future of freedom in the western democracies.
The government of Turkey today, moderate and democratic by Muslim
standards, is no more culpable for the historic genocide against
the Armenians than is the present government of Germany culpable for
Hitler's Holocaust against the Jews of Europe. This is not the time
to alienate Turkey.
This would not be the first time America would be expected to place
short term political and strategic considerations over broader
questions of morality. The most notorious case of America choosing
politics over morality in foreign affairs was the World War II
alliance between America and Stalin's Soviet Union. To defeat Hitler,
we allied ourselves with a left-wing Soviet regime that was as bad,
if not a worse, than the Nazi enemy. By the time of the US-Soviet
alliance, 1941, the left-wing Soviets, first under Lenin and than under
Stalin, had already liquidated millions of innocent people with forced
starvations and firing squads. It was the communist Soviets who first
set up the concentration camps that would be imitated by the Nazis.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress