Back Talk

Can she really be as inept as she seems? As recently as the weekend, Ms. Pelosi said that she planned to take a bill to the full House this year which denounces Turkey because of mass killings of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire and labeling the episode genocide. It is anyone’s guess why she would do such a thing at this particular point. I don’t want to believe that America’s Congressional leader is really this ignorant so my only choice – not really a stretch – is to assume she is doing this to undermine the war effort, the troops, and President Bush knowing that the DemPols have already shown their ugly underside on the war effort. That is, they must insure our failure as their only way to save face after criticizing the war from the onset. Turkey is our only Mid East ally in the Iraq war; this is neither the time nor the place for us to exhume the past and fret over the historical record of the Ottoman Empire. In any case, what point is there to pass a bill calling a known genocide that took place in 1915 a genocide. As vile as it may seem, the only explanation appears to be a deliberate attempt to anger the Turks enough for them to stop supporting us in Iraq. In either case, she will have alienated moderates, further angered supporters of the troops, and solidified her place in history as the most incompetent House Speaker in modern times.