The Guardian today gives formal editorial backing to the judgement of one of its journalists yesterday that it would be unwise for Congress to declare the Turkish genocide against the Armenians a genocide.
At Comment is Free, Christopher Beam expresses a certain impatience with this approach:
Genocide could have chosen a more convenient time to make its way onto the congressional docket. Honestly.A question might be added here. How far must such tact as the Guardian advises extend? So as to improve relations with Iran, should other countries soft-pedal on Ahmadinejad's Holocaust-denial? Should one shut up about the massacres in Matabeleland in the 1980s, as a way of trying to persuade Mugabe to go quietly? Honestly.