Lake Expo, MO
Oct 19 2007

Only bad blood can come from condemning deeds of Ottoman Empire

Friday, October 19, 2007 10:12 AM CDT

The resolution floating around Congress to condemn killers long dead
is not just bad, it is stupid.

Although a lot of Democrats are backing away from the meaningless
move to label the death of a million Armenians in the century-gone
Ottoman Empire as genocide, the move itself has angered the modern
Turkish government.

It is worth remembering that Turkey is what passes for a democracy in
the Muslim world and is a key element in our military structure in
the world’s most troubled region.

It is also worth remembering that the resolution is meaningless, the
empire and the killers are long ago turned to dust. Certainly the
slaughter of the Armenians was wrong but what in the world does it
matter now? If the current Turkish government kills an Armenian, then
let’s pay attention. Digging up the past dead in a world knee deep in
fresh bleeding bodies is just ridiculous.

We increasingly appear to be led by a bunch of knuckleheads on both
sides of the aisle.

The ones that are not in bathrooms looking for dates are in the halls
of Congress worrying about things that do not make us safer, richer
or more likely to fiscally survive a trip to the emergency room.

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