Why should America acknowledge the Armenian Genocide now?
America is the moral leader of the world. We must set the record straight, to rehabilitate America’s innocence, extricate the U.S. from an ugly distortion of history, and to restore America’s respectability in the eyes of our European allies who, accepting the truth, are amazed at Americas hypocrisy. No principled Turk should be offended by the truth. After all, a large number of Armenian survivors of the Genocide owe their lives to devout Turks. To be a patriotic Turk does not require hating Armenians or distorting history. [top] There is more than one side to every story. Truth is not divisible by two. Is there another side about Hitler who gassed Jews, about Stalin who starved Ukrainians, or about Pol Pt and the Khmer Rouge who massacred Cambodians? Of course not. Genocide is so blatant an evil that it has no other side to the story. [top] It is your word against ours. The Turks themselves have confessed in earlier times. Prime Minister Damat Ferid Pasha placed the blame squarely on
