"Worse Than Irrelevant
A congressional resolution about massacres in Turkey 90 years ago endangers present-day U.S. security.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007; Page A16
IT'S EASY to dismiss a nonbinding congressional resolution accusing Turkey of 'genocide' against Armenians during World War I as frivolous. Though the subject is a serious one -- more than 1 million Armenians may have died at the hands of the Young Turk regime between 1915 and the early 1920s -- House Democrats pushing for a declaration on the subject have petty and parochial interests. Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), the chief sponsor, says he has more than 70,000 ethnic Armenians in his Los Angeles district. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has promised to bring the measure to a vote on the House floor, has important Armenian American campaign contributors. How many House members can be expected to carefully weigh Mr. Schiff's one-sided 'findings' about long-ago events in Anatolia?"
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