It looks like the resolution may fizzle after all. (Genocide Resolution Losing Steam)
I guess that common sense has prevailed. Yet, damage has been done. US interests were put at risk. (The Nancy Pelosi Invasion)
Fred Gedrich is a foreign-policy and national-security analyst, having served in the U.S. Departments of State and Defense and visited Armenia and Turkey on official assignments. Today, he wrote:
"The U.S./Turkey relationship is too important to be sacrificed on the altar of self-serving domestic political interests.
And unless it’s clearly in U.S. national security interest, genocide prevention should be the prime responsibility of organizations like the United Nations or the European Union, African Union, and Islamic Conference for what happened in places like Bosnia and Rwanda and for what’s happening today in Sudan.
For the U.S. Congress to antagonize an ally like Turkey over an event occurring so long ago — with perpetrators dead and the Ottoman government nonexistent — is unnecessary, irresponsible, and dangerous.
When a similar resolution passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee in 2000, Republican House Speaker Hastert wisely acquiesced to President Clinton’s request not to bring the resolution before the full House because of its possible negative impact on U.S. national security. It was the right decision then and the right thing for Pelosi to do now." (Congressional Turkeys: The Armenian genocide resolution is unnecessary)
Once again, the congressional leadership shows its true colors. They are turkeys in every sense of the word! (Congress's New Role: Undermining U.S. Foreign Policy By Victor Davis Hanson)
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