I disagree. It was not the current state of Turkey that perpetrated the “genocide” but the Ottoman Empire. I suppose that you also support the US apologizing to African nations for its role in slavery? Same thought process.
If Congress can get irate about overseas events that happened almost 100 years ago, what's to stop some group of Native Americans from demanding reparations for the deaths of their ancestors in the 19th Century Indian wars?
What's past is past, except that which can still be changed. I believe there's plenty left from the early 20th Century -- Social Insecurity, ag subsidies, labor-favor laws, price supports, banking regulation, to name a few -- to keep Congress busy if they were in the mood to correct mistakes of our own government rather than lay a guilt trip on a country that's been a fairly reliable ally, blaming them for something no one alive is responsible for.
Surely Congress has more constructive things to do than pass non-binding resolutions of this nature.
If Congress can get irate about overseas events that happened almost 100 years ago, what's to stop some group of Native Americans from demanding reparations for the deaths of their ancestors in the 19th Century Indian wars?
What's past is past, except that which can still be changed. I believe there's plenty left from the early 20th Century -- Social Insecurity, ag subsidies, labor-favor laws, price supports, banking regulation, to name a few -- to keep Congress busy if they were in the mood to correct mistakes of our own government rather than lay a guilt trip on a country that's been a fairly reliable ally, blaming them for something no one alive is responsible for.
Surely Congress has more constructive things to do than pass non-binding resolutions of this nature.