A Comment About

The Armenian Genocide Bill: The Right Move At The Wrong Time

October 23, 2007 - 6:00 am - by Jules Crittenden
Bill Baar
2007-10-23 08:02:05

I wish Congress would instead reflect on the United State’s failure to accept a League of Naiton’s Mandate for the fledlging Armenian State in 1920.

Gen Harbord cited one reason why the US should in his report on return from his mission to Armenia,

Harbord’s 14th point,

14. Here is a man’s job that the world says can be better done by America than by any other. America can afford the money; she has the men; no duty to her own people would suffer; her traditional policy of isolation did not keep her from successful participation in the Great War. Shall it be said that our country lacks the courage to take up new and difficult duties?

We didn’t stand up to the job then and it’s worth asking why.