(H/T: Dan Riehl) With regard to President Obama’s decision to not confront the Armenian Genocide question while in Turkey – as noted here from someone on the scene, he specifically avoided using the word genocide – it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that he didn’t keep that particular campaign promise (“America deserves a leader who speaks truthfully about the Armenian Genocide and responds forcefully to all genocides. I intend to be that President.”). Politician, lying, lips moving, etc. etc. etc. Besides, I saw this coming last month.
What should be the focus now is what Congress plans to do about it. Rep. Mark Kirk (R, IL) is still hopeful that his resolution recognizing the Genocide – which he’s worked on with Rep. Adam Schiff (D, CA), Rep. George Radanovich (R, CA) and Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D, NJ) will make it to the floor of the House, but that’s up to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D, CA)… who has been noticeably silent on this issue in this Congress. One would have to be a terrible human being to suggest that this is because there’s no convenient scapegoat this time around…
Moe Lane
*I’d be sympathetic to the problem he’s got with this, except that he shot off his mouth a lot on the subject last year, and the man needs to learn that people pay attention to what Presidents say.
Crossposted to RedState.
Nancy Pelosi has always been a strong voice on the side of resistance to tyranny and genocide, viz Tienanmen, Darfur, and of course America under Bush. One would think that Pelosi would be especially tuned in to the Armenian 1915 genocide issue, since it happened when she was just a young girl.