Genocide Then, Now
Krauhammer’s three questions for Pelosi:
There are three relevant questions concerning the Armenian genocide.
(a) Did it happen?
(b) Should the U.S. House of Representatives be expressing itself on this now?
(c) Was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s determination to bring this to a vote, knowing that it risked provoking Turkey into withdrawing crucial assistance to American soldiers in Iraq, a conscious (columnist Thomas Sowell) or unconscious (blogger Mickey Kaus) attempt to sabotage the U.S. war effort?
The answers are:
(a) Yes, unequivocally.
(b) No, unequivocally.
(c) God only knows.
Krauthammer notes that Pelosi, while exercised about a genocide executed by Ottoman Turks a century ago, shows little interest in today’s genocides. Good digs on Pelsoi’s foreign policy record. But amid his speculation about whether this could possibly be a cynical effort to undermine the war she can’t stop by more direct means, Krauthammer fails to note that if that’s the case Pelosi’s moral stance against Genocide Past is in furtherance of Genocice Present.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:27 am on Friday, October 19, 2007
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October 19th, 2007 at 9:56 am
And only Pelosi will know God’s retribution for her perfidy…
October 19th, 2007 at 11:44 am
God may know, and Krauthammer may not, but I believe Pelosi is the kind of politician who will push her own agenda regardless of what it does to the American people. So, did she do it to sabotage the war effort? Yes, I believe she did. She and her gang have certainly shown no compunctions in the past.
October 19th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
The “loyal opposition” certainly made a great choice for a wartime Speaker of the House didn’t they? The fact that they don’t acknowlege there to even be a war notwithstanding.
I think her statement when she took over says it all. “When the Republicans were in power, Congress was in the hands of corporations. Now that we’re in charge, Congress will be in the hands of America’s children”. Truer words were never spoken.
Of course if you critcize her, then you are just a bully picking on somebody’s gramma.
October 19th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
This resolution in a part of a pattern of efforts the Speaker and her cronies have made to thwart our efforts in this war, and to take over the conduct of foreign policy by overtly attempting to contravene the constitution. Whether she fits the legal definition of a traitor, she will always be a traitor in my eyes.
October 19th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
THE KEY PROBLEM IS THAT PELOSI fights human rights abuses in fits and starts. For example, she criticizes China for a while, and then suddenly shuts up. Perhaps this is just her way of soliciting political donations from China? Bill Clinton did it got money from China, and Hillary seems to be doing it now. Perhaps Pelosi shuts up about China when she gets donation checks from 1000 busboys?
Only constant and unremitting pressure has much chance of redressing human rights abuses.
In the case of Turkey, where political corruption and secret political payoffs are common, I wonder what is going on. First, Pelosi cries bloody murder about the Armenians, but then, just recently, seems to have stopped, and now implies that it may not come to a house vote. What happened, the genocide did not go away, but Pelosi’s passion went away… Why?
October 20th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Nancy’s “passion” on the Armenians goes away proportionately to members of her caucus backing away from her position.
What continuous insanity across the board in this nation’s allegedly hallowed legislative body.
At least praise Allah for C. Krauthammer, when you begin to think that all common sense is irretrievably lost…
So why has Pelosi been so committed to bringing this resolution to the floor? (At least until a revolt within her party and the prospect of defeat caused her to waver.) Because she is deeply unserious about foreign policy.
Krauthammer’s razor (with apologies to Occam): In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.
October 21st, 2007 at 4:23 am
Okay. I’ll bow to Krauthammer’s Razor. Pelosi is a stupid, incompetent traitor. But understand that I don’t find her efforts puzzling, but of a piece.