Why on Earth are we trying to piss off Turkey? One of the few friends we have left, particularly in the Muslim world????

You may have heard Congress is trying to pass a resolution which labels the genocide of Armenians in the early 1900's as, well, genocide.

Look, we all know the Turks carried on a genocide campaign against the Armenians. It's no big secret. Adolph Hitler used it to justify his campaign against the Jews. If it quacks like a duck.......

My point is, what the hell does it matter today? It doesn't change anything. And it's pissing off a key ally in the middle east. The Turks have already recalled their ambassador for "consultation" over this matter.

And, oh by the way, it was not Turkey that committed the Armenian genocide. Modern day Turkey didn't even exist until 1923. The Ottoman Empire is the guilty party in regards to the Armenian genocide.

I've visited Turkey. It's a modern, secular Muslim nation. The citizens there are very proud of their secular state. Americans could take a lesson from them considering how we're mixing government and religion these days.

Every nation has something its not proud of in its past. And the US is not exactly pure when it comes to issues of treatment of minorities. Remember all those millions of indigenous Americans that were here before Europeans arrived?