Correct. Letting the Turks continue to slide on this is just appeasement from the remove of about 80 years. Appeasement just the same!! The Turks want to blackmail the US over this so we will comply with their ‘interference’ in the ME, and at a time when we need the allegiance of all non combatants in the area. It is just the same old game of taking unfair advantage of the US when the US most needs support. Only this time, the Turks hope to erase cold hard historic fact.... once and for all. The US does not see that overlooking this documented historic fact will put the seal of approval on the shameless slaughter which took place... and will all but hobble further and continued challenges to such acts of terror and genocide... by Turks or ANYONE!!!
Can't we just wait until a better time? A time when there is no impact on our armed forces engaged in combat?
The U.S. has not overlooked anything. I grew up accepting that it was a genocide and I've been around since a little before W.W.II. No one I know and nothing that I remember in the MSM even comes close to "letting the Turks continue to slide."
After working with Turks for about three years including almost one year living in Ankara, I have a great deal of respect for the Turkish people; and I do understand why the modern democratic republic of Turkey is wary of the issue being mostly over one word, genocide. I do not know the precise official position but they do not deny that it was horrific and victims numbered in the hundreds of thousands; there were hundreds of thousands of others besides the Armenians who suffered and died, Turkey wants those victims recognized as well.
My own research however convinces me that "genocide" is the correct word -- but how will calling it genocide make a difference for the victims who suffered horribly?
Also, There is more than ample proof of Germany's complicity why not include Germany? One source is 'German Responsibility in the Armenian Genocide: A Review of the Historical Evidence of German Complicity' by Vahakn N. Dadrian.
Key word, complicity; no one is trying to shift the blame.