Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee sent a signal to the world that the US is willing to sacrifice one of its most important, long-term strategic relationships for short-sighted political gains driven by an ethnic lobby. The Committee members who have voted for the Resolution have ignored their primary mandates of resolving the immediate and [...]
Days before the March 4 vote in the U.S. House foreign affairs committee regarding a resolution on Armenian allegations related to the incidents of 1915, U.S. officials said Obama administration would continue to encourage Turkey and Armenia to move forward, not look backward. At a daily press briefing on Tuesday, spokesman for the U.S. Department [...]
Excerpted from Report by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), March 1, 2010, full text at http://www.jinsa.org/node/1316. [ ] The Congress of the United States is not the place to debate the history of other people in other times. It would be unacceptable for Brazil to pass a resolution condemning 19th Century American [...]