Does that mean we should also stop calling the Holocaust in Germany, a genocide? Or is it only Islamic genocides that we keep silent about?
Does that mean we should also stop calling the Holocaust in Germany, a genocide? Or is it only Islamic genocides that we keep silent about?
No, how did you make that leap in logic? There are a lot of implications, political, military and economic in declaring genocide. I don’t think Congress has taken all of them into consideration. Congress declaring it so does not make it more or less. It just is. The massacre of the Armenians in 1915 was genocide. We don’t need a declaration at this critical juncture in Iraq, so the Turks can use it as a pre-text to invade Northern Iraq. By the way, recent declarations of genocide have included Darfur (Muslim on Muslim), Bosnia and Kosovo (Orthodox on Muslim), Rwanda (tribal). I don’t think we were silent about any of them.