There are few scallywags and scoundrels, stuffed shirts and shysters in the world as a whole, unless of course you look at the Democrats in the Congress of the United States. Currently the House leadership and Senate leadership are adamantly pursuing a resolution to condem the genocide in Armenia by the Ottoman Empire (read Turkey) between 1915 and 1917.

Bush has asked that the resolution be dropped as a needless exercise frought with possibly grave consequences to our relationship with Turkey, our putative NATO ally. Pelosi has indicated that she does not plan to back down from getting the resolution passed. The Democrats note with some measure of glee that in 2000 the Republicans pushed for the same thing. And, that is true. However, President Clinton saw the trouble it would raise with our ally and asked Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House to squash the resolution and Hastert, unlike Pelosi, listened to reason, saw the possible consequences and quietly but firmly squashed the resolution. Today, the Democrats aren't listening, instead, like a bull in a china shop , they are pushing ahead for only one reason. And that is to give Bush a black eye vis-a-vis our relationships with Turkey, and to, they hope, bleed the war effort by encouraging via their stupidity a Turkish response that we cannot afford.

The Democrats are hoping that Turkey will break relations, perhaps invade northern Iraq in pursuit of the Kurdish rebels and thereby cause a major fracture in the war against Al Qaeda. The Democrats don't have the guts to end the war via eliminating the funding, they have shown that they don't have the votes to end the war via creeping deadlines or via benchmarks. Their backdoor slap at General Petraeus ended up like egg on their faces and Senator Reid's favorable/unfavorable ratings have slipped below those of admittedly low President Bush's. The Democrats cannot possibly win any other way, except to insure a major rupture in future relationships.

This is a needless and stupid Resolution. Hastert saw the wisdom of not pushing it, Pelosi is too dishonest and/or stupid and has only the one goal. Will this Resolution have any effect other than the tarnishing of our relations with Turkey? No! Will it bring back any Armenians? No! Will it make a hill of beans difference to the historical record? Again, the answer can only be no!

Dishonest non-apology apologies and dishonest resolutions seem to be all the rage these days. Clinton's to Africa, Virginia's for the slave trade, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Except in this case, real disaster could ensue, there could be armed tensions between Iraq and Turkey, between Turkey and the United States. Turkey is already on the threshold of being an Islamic state and its President is an Islamist. Do we really need to go there?

The answer to that can only be no, but not going for the resolution is just about the only device left to the flatly unpatriotic Democrats in Congress. Yes, I said unpatriotic. The war in Iraq is showing signs of the destruction of Al Qaeda, civilian deaths are down, the Iraqi army is stepping up to the plate, Sunni and Shia tribes are uniting in their hatred of Al Qaeda and their realization that their best interests lie with a united Iraq. Yes, it is good news in Iraq and the double damned Democrats just can't stand it.

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AOW posted on this the other day, and I left these comments.  I hope you won't mind if I repeat them here:

It is certainly possible for someone to argue that Nancy Pelosi has acted honorably and forthright by sending a resolution to the floor denouncing the genocide of Armenians a century ago. And the view that the United States needs to stop pandering to other nations – according to the advice of George Washington – has a great deal of merit. On the other hand, one might also consider this:

1. Nancy Pelosi’s decision to support fellow House Democrat Adam Schiff (also from California and sponsor the Armenian Resolution) immediately places thousands more human beings in jeopardy. Turkey is now massing its army along the northern border of Iraq, intending to punish Kurds for allegedly attacking its sovereignty. Now I have little doubt that this is simply an unintended consequence of Ms. Pelosi’s naïveté, but isn’t she in line to succeed to the presidency? Considering her position in government, should we have a speaker of the house who lacks the ability to think “outside the box?”

2. Should the Turks decide to invade northern Iraq the United States will have two military concerns: the first, whether or not to protect Kurds from assault by Turkish forces, and the second involving the loss of over-flight rights – which are part of the logistics train supporting our troops in Iraq. Did Ms. Pelosi give this much thought before introducing her resolution?

3. There are over one-million Armenian Americans now living in California, including the congressional districts of Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi, and so it occurs to me that by introducing the resolution, and pushing it to the floor for a vote in the House of Representatives, both Mr. Schiff and Ms. Pelosi are pandering for votes.

If I have understood this properly, Nancy Pelosi intends to put thousands of Kurds into harms way, subject American and Turkish soldiers to the possibility of shooting one another, and intends to disrupt the supply chain into Iraq – all to enhance the likelihood of her reelection in November. Maybe it’s just me . . . but in the words of the late great Jimmy Durante, “What a revolting development this is.”

Posted by: Mustang at Tuesday, October 16 2007 11:40 AM (e0a5u)

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