The Daily Show’s take on Congress’s attempt to legislate history is worth watching:

“This Armenian Strife”

Now Congress seems to be deciding that the Ottoman slaughter of Armenians in 1915 is NOT genocide. Political pressure related to the importance of Turkey in the U.S. war in Iraq seems to have changed historical interpretation. See how stupid it is to try to have resolutions that make official word usage and thus interpretation […]

Words are powerful, especially when loaded. The current and surprisingly vigorous debate over the House Foreign Relations Committee’s vote to endorse using the word “genocide” to describe the mass killings of approximately 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 is a case in point. I’ve followed this issue for many years now and remember how in previous […]