Armenian resolution acknowledges genocide
Tilly Gokbudak's letter ("Congress should defeat anti-Turkey resolution," Oct. 26) on the Armenian resolution completely sidesteps the issue of acknowledging a genocide. The resolution is about recognizing the mass murder of 1.5 million human beings.
It also sends a message to a nation that officially denies this horrendous tragedy to the point of criminalizing any discussion. This is not "anti-Turkish" any more than recognition of the Holocaust is anti-German.
There are only two reasons to oppose this resolution: either realpolitik trumps telling the truth or some of us are refusing to accept history.
William Jarrell
Greensboro
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I respectfully disagree.
I don't see the need of our elected officials taking time to 'recognize' historical events that have been recorded for decades. Worse than that, the timing was horrible.
Posted on November 1, 2007 9:27 AM
The point of the resolution is that these "historical events that have been recorded for decades" are being officially denied in the country where they happened. It's the equivalent of Germany banning the Diary of Ann Frank. This wasn't just an academic exercise.
Posted on November 1, 2007 10:50 AM