THE WASHINGTON TIMES: CONGRESS SHOULD HAVE MORE IMPORTANT PRIORITIES THAN THE EVENTS OF 80 YEARS AGO

ArmRadio.am
20.02.2007 16:30

"Mrs. Pelosi has scheduled a vote in April on a resolution
(H. Res. 106) that accuses Turkey’s Ottoman Empire of perpetrating
genocide resulting in the death or displacement of nearly 2 million
Armenians between 1915 and 1923.

With the United States currently fighting a war for its very survival
against radical Islamists, Congress should have much more important
priorities than revisiting events that occurred more than 80 years ago
– particularly when doing so has the potential to do serious damage
to US relations with Turkey, whose cooperation will be critical to
US efforts to stabilize Iraq," the Washington Times wrote in today’s
periodical.

At the same time the author states: "Armenian and Greek lobbying
organizations hostile to Turkey command far more power in Washington
than do pro-Turkish groups. And in their effort to settle old scores
dating back to World War I, they have the potential to damage our
current ability to maintain Turkey’s cooperation in stabilizing Iraq."