This question boggles my mind. I haven’t the faintest idea why the U.S. Congress thinks it can pass resolutions concerning countries as far away as Turkey, even if that nation is a “close ally.” Why do American legislators think they have a right to behave as if they were the only perfect representatives of justice? I’m not even sure that justice as such exists these days, or that it has existed since the two World Wars. If the U.S. Congress feels it should negotiate all the injustices of the last sixty or seventy years, that’s fine with me. But where is the resolution condemning Hiroshima, or the wars in Korea and Vietnam? Where is the resolution condemning the U.S.’s passive stance toward Hungary in 1956? That’s only the first of a troublingly long list.
Don’t reject this argument by telling me that the Turks really massacred lots of Armenians. During the decades in question, there were massacres all over the world, quite a number of them carried out by American troops and weapons. Why did the U.S. administration not do anything to stop the Armenian killings when they occurred? Moreover, why can’t this administration stop the killings in its current wars? I don’t know. The lack of an acceptable answer boggles my mind even more than does this PostGlobal question.
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