Norman Stone, Chicago Tribune All the world knows what the end of an empire looks like: hundreds of thousands of people fleeing down dusty paths, taking what was left of their possessions; crammed refugee trains puffing their way across arid plains; and many, many people dying. For the Ottoman Empire that process began in the [...]
The Wall Street Journal House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, famous for donning a head scarf earlier this year to commune for peace with the Syrians, has now concluded that this is the perfect moment to pass a Congressional resolution condemning Turkey for the Armenian genocide of 1915. Problem is, Turkey in 2007 has it within its [...]
Bruce Fein, The Washingtom Times Armenian crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Ottoman Turkish and Kurdish populations of eastern and southern Anatolia during World War I and its aftermath have been forgotten amidst congressional preoccupation with placating the vocal and richly financed Armenian lobby. Last Wednesday, the Armenians hectored members of the House [...]
Rich Lowry, National Review Editor Yet another inconsequential piece of legislation from the Democratic Congress The Ottoman Empire died an ignominious death 85 years ago in the aftermath of World War I. Democrats are nonetheless intent on rebuking it for the mass killing of Armenians during World War I that many scholars and a proposed [...]
10.16Armenian debacle
Tulin Daloglu, The Washington Times House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she believes that “the biggest ethical challenge facing our country is the war in Iraq.” Therefore, she must believe that passing a resolution declaring the mass killings of Armenians at the end of World War I a genocide will restore America’s moral authority. Rep. Tom [...]