Monday, October 15, 2007

Ok, let's get this straight:

Last week Congress voted to condemn the Armenian genocide and Turkey, where it is illegal to call the genocide a genocide, withdrew its ambassador and moved troops to the Kurdish border. Congress voted to give the Dalai Lama a medal and China withdrew from a meeting on sanctions against Iran. I'm all for condemning genocide and religious intolerance (though the case of the Dalai Lama is a bit more difficult, since the Dalai Lama is not just a spiritual leader but the ruler of a theocracy in exile, and theocracies are something that don't sit well with me), but is congress by making symbolic gestures hampering our foreign policy? Honestly: we cannot afford to lose Turkey while we have. troops in Iraq and while the Kurds are our one success over there. Nor can we lose China in dealing with Iran.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

so you should write your Congresswoman and register your displeasure. California has the single largest Armenian population in the US; and this has always been a burning issue with them.

But what's with the timing. She is driving this in order to cut of supply routes to Iraq. Someone in the late hours had a brilliant idea!!

Where is the wisdom in undermining US foreign policy, as the Congress seems bent on doing.?

8:34 PM  

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