TCA Deplores House Foreign Affairs Committee Vote on H.Res. 252
March 4, 2010, Washington, DC - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) sent a signal to the world that the US is willing to sacrifice one of its most important, long-term strategic relationships for short-sighted political gains driven by an ethnic lobby. The Committee members who have voted for the Resolution have ignored their primary mandates of resolving the immediate and pressing concerns in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and other troubled parts of the world, and voted to waste the taxpayers’ time and money on a resolution that will alienate a key ally and trading partner. [read more]
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New Scholarship Disputes Armenian "Genocide" Narrative
and H.Res. 252
The following recent articles published on Armenian-Ottoman history demonstrate the inappropriateness of legislating history, as H.Res. 252 intends to do. This history has neither been fully researched, nor authoritatively written. H.Res. 252 does injustice to the diversity of scholarship on this issue in favor of endorsing a defect and biased narrative. [ read more] |