No, I’m not Armenian. I don’t even have any close friend who are Armenian. I just it’s stupid for the U.S. to appease other countries like this. Do you also think we should pretend the Holocaust during WWII didn’t happen, because the Middle East would like us to?
We are appeasing Armenians, at home and abroad, who want us to make such statements. I have lived in five different countries in Europe for a total of 13 years. Part of the problem in places like Greece and elsewhere is that they treat events that happened hundreds of years ago as though they happened yesterday. It is the source of friction and discord. Why should the US become involved in such a dispute between Armenia and Turkey? What purpose does it serve in terms of our national interst? How does it help us?
Should we issue a statement as to who is at fault in the dispute between Pakistan and India over Kashmir?
The Holocaust is recent history. The US killed hundreds of thousands of Germans, if not more than a million, to defeat the Nazis and their world view. Our troops liberated concentration camps. We were deeply involved. We have a Holocaust Museum on the Mall. We had nothing to do with the events between the Turks and the Armenians. What you fail to understand is that Obama and Bush and other US Presidents have made statements on these events to win votes from Armenian-Americans, many of whom live in California. It is crass politics rather than idealism.