Local-Issue Politics Will Jeopardize Links to Turkey

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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 House resolution call "genocide."

The historical controversy over the massacres is an extremely sensitive point in Turkey, where it's a crime to refer to the massacres as a genocide. The mere passage of the resolution by a House committee last week was enough for Turkey to recall its ambassador to the U.S. The House leadership promises a vote by the full House by the middle of November, and the resolution likely will pass with bipartisan support, souring relations with an ally whose support is absolutely essential to our war in Iraq.

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Local-Issue Politics Will Jeopardize Links to Turkey

And the Democrats accuse President Bush of diplomatic insensitivity? Bush the "cowboy" would never do something so pointlessly destructive. The resolution represents local ...

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