Democrats in Congress have introduced a resolution condemning Turkey for the 1894-96 and World War I massacres of Armenian Christians in the Ottoman Empire. No such resolution is in play for Russia's pogroms against the Jews as depicted in "Fiddler on the Roof." Congress is as silent today about the Tutsi massacre in Rwanda as former Secretary of State Madeline Albright and President Clinton were back in 1994. Where's Congress's outrage over the current genocide in Darfur?

Which begs the questions: Why Turkey? Why Now?

In response to the resolution, Ankara recalled its ambassador to Washington and Turkey amassed 60.000 troops on Iraq's border with threats to invade. Bin Laden himself could not have better crafted a resolution to weaken our position in the war on Islamic jihad. Sad that so many congressmen would rather see America lose a war than themselves an election.

Clark Larsen

Holladay