“The Armenian genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but rather a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence,” Senator Barack Obama said in January 2008. “As president, I will recognize the Armenian genocide.”
Seven years later, that is only one of many unredeemed promises. Hillary Clinton, who also used the word “genocide” as a candidate, preferred as secretary of state to leave such “contentious historical debate” to “the marketplace of ideas.” Ditto, apparently, for UN Ambassador Samantha Power, who literally wrote the book on genocide.
In a 1915 editorial, “For Armenia,” The Nation denounced the Turks’ “deliberate attempt to extirpate a race…. We are evidently dealing not with the passions and lusts of a war-maddened soldiery, but with a…
