Why americans are so pushing on the armenian bill?

Question

what if turkey passed a similiar law on indian extermination, how can be the reaction of americans?
is it the job of politicians to judge the history??

the armenian bill is a bill proposed to vote in the congress this month.
it would make guilty who denies the ""genocide"" of armenians in 1915 by ottomans.

Answer 1

Americans are pushing for the Armenian Bill because it allows for white-horse diplomacy with no real international backlash. Basically, we get to look good for condemning genocide, and it doesn't matter that we're blaming somebody because the "somebody" is a defunct empire whose governance was legally inherited by the Republic of Turkey in 1923. Not to mention, Turkey will do anything it can to separate itself idealistically from the Ottoman Empire, as it has a severe case of personality cult syndrome vis-a-vis Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (the guy who basically made Turkey take a political and cultural 180 from everything that the Ottoman empire had been).

Bottom line: we get to say genocide is bad at a a time when we need to look good in the eyes of the international community, and the international community doesn't particularly care because modern Turkey doesn't give a rip about their Ottoman heritage.

And as far as if it's the job of politicians to judge history, I only have this to say: Politicians can judge history all they want (part of their job, I would argue, is judging history to determine what we can learn from it) -- it is NOT the job of a politician to REWRITE history, or to punish people nowadays for things we're not sure whether their ancestors did or did not do. Which one is being done nowadays with the Armenian Bill is debatable.

Answer 2

Germany has apologized for what it did to Jews in Europe in World War II. Japan has apologized for the war crimes it committed in China and other parts of Asia during World War II. In both cases, it was a different government from the government that runs those countries now. The Ottoman Empire killed hundreds of thousands of Armenian Christians in 1915 and 1916. It makes no sense that the republic founded by Amal Ataturk, a republic that has guaranteed equal rights for all religions for nearly 80 years, a NATO member and an important player in the Middle East would deny what is an obvious historical fact. No one is saying that the current Turkish government had anything to do with it. Why deny the Armenians the fact of their historical holocaust?

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I'm sorry. What is the Armenian Bill?

Answer 5

turkey has to stop killing everyone! if they went and exterminated the indians it would be no surprise. ****** murderers. whos next?