“Inside Higher Education has an interesting story about scholars and others who deny that there was a genocide of Armenians in 1915. In the background of the story: Congress, the Bush administration, Turkey's government, and Holocaust deniers.”
Ed Cognoski responds:99% of Americans have never heard of Armenia or the Armenian genocide, so don't expect outrage over Armenian genocide deniers.
What I'm struck by is the coincidence that this makes news the same week that President Bush meets with the Dalai Lama, a victim of another case of a government suppressing an ethnic minority, in this case China suppressing Tibetan independence. President Bush wants to overlook the Armenian genocide so as not to incite the Turks to attack the Kurds in Iraq. But President Bush meets with Dalai Lama, in spite of that inciting the Chinese, whose support he needs to pressure the Iranians not to develop nuclear weapons. Does no one in Washington know how to conduct foreign policy any more?
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