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EDITORIAL: Why pick a fight with the Turks?
America has enough enemies without looking for more.
SOME FIGHTS ARE worth picking. And some surely are not.
When the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee endorsed a resolution labeling as “genocide” a Turkish campaign against Armenians a hundred years ago, the action definitely fell into the latter category. The Turks reacted angrily - as they had said they would - recalling their ambassador from Washington and threatening retaliatory moves if the measure is passed by the full Congress.
Such moves could include barring U.S. planes from flying through Turkey's airspace, and booting America out of a key military base which, incidentally, serves as a conduit for troops and war materials flowing into Iraq.
WHY WOULD the United States treat a key ally this way?
Why indeed.
There is no apparent answer. We'd be surprised to find one in a million Americans who even know there was a Turkish campaign against Armenians a hundred years ago. It's ancient history, not cause to create an international incident today.
Unless, of course, leftist House leaders want to bollix up U.S. efforts in Iraq by goading the Turks to close off access to the American military.
But, surely, the Nancy Pelosi-led House majority couldn't be that cynical. Right?
SOME FIGHTS ARE worth picking. And some surely are not.
When the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee endorsed a resolution labeling as “genocide” a Turkish campaign against Armenians a hundred years ago, the action definitely fell into the latter category. The Turks reacted angrily - as they had said they would - recalling their ambassador from Washington and threatening retaliatory moves if the measure is passed by the full Congress.
Such moves could include barring U.S. planes from flying through Turkey's airspace, and booting America out of a key military base which, incidentally, serves as a conduit for troops and war materials flowing into Iraq.
WHY WOULD the United States treat a key ally this way?
Why indeed.
There is no apparent answer. We'd be surprised to find one in a million Americans who even know there was a Turkish campaign against Armenians a hundred years ago. It's ancient history, not cause to create an international incident today.
Unless, of course, leftist House leaders want to bollix up U.S. efforts in Iraq by goading the Turks to close off access to the American military.
But, surely, the Nancy Pelosi-led House majority couldn't be that cynical. Right?
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