Angering Turkey Makes It Harder in Iraq

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has apparently promised some wealthy Armenian-American backers in her district that she would bring to a vote a resolution condemning the massacres of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as genocide.

It was that. You don't kill 1.2 million people out of a population of only 1.6 million by accident. In addition to mass executions, Armenians were forcibly deported to the deserts of modern-day Syria, where thousands more died of starvation and dehydration. There is a voluminous record of the horrors of that time.

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Angering Turkey Makes It Harder in Iraq

There is a hitch, however. The modern Turks, our NATO allies, strenuously and vehemently oppose any labeling of what happened to the Armenians as genocide. W...

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