Letters to the Editor
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A proposal for the Turkish parliament
Re-establishing moral credibility in the world, and more importantly in the Middle East, is important work for the United States. I fail to see how this resolution does that. A Congress that has remained nearly silent on very real, contemporary issues that weigh on people's minds abroad, such as prisoner abuse, torture, rendition, imperialist doctrines of pre-emptive war, now will begin to re-assert American ethics by condemning a century old genocide? Correcting the country's course might be easier if we eliminate or at least DEBATE issues more salient to the way in which our republic is perceived abroad.
So very well then. If this is how nations restore moral culpability, perhaps the Turkish government ought to pass its own resolutions condemning the United States' official policies of genocide and ethnic cleansing directed at Native Americans. It sickens me to see the ways in which America has elevated hypocrisy to the highest form of political art.