So Obama has broken another campaign promise. As a candidate, Obama pledged in no uncertain terms to call the Armenian genocide just that. The statement that appeared on his campaign website:
Maybe. I’m not sure Obama hasn’t done the right thing by breaking this promise, again, and instead calling it an atrocity in a statement today. I wish he’d break a few others. And nobody believes that the Obama administration will respond forcefully to all genocides. He was clear during the campaign that he wouldn’t keep U.S. troops in Iraq even if his withdrawal came at the cost of genocide. Still, there is always a price to be paid for this kind of thing, and according to one source that price is being paid by Philip Gordon, who was nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. Gordon could fairly be called a Turkophile, if that’s a word. I’m told that one Republican senator has put a quiet hold on the nomination at the behest of the Armenian lobby and in response to Obama’s utterly predictable betrayal — a betrayal made annually by presidents of both parties on April 24 for a very long time, though few had gone quite so far as Obama in promising to recognize the genocide as such. If Gordon doesn’t make it through confirmation, I wonder if he’ll issue a statement blasting the Armenian lobby for character assassination — and whether the left will accuse Armenians of dual loyalties.
