Dear Shmuel Rosner, if you are interested, I could provide you with a line by line analysis of why practically every idea you have written in this article is way off base. If you are interested, don't be a stranger.

In the meantime, I will restrict myself to the comment below.

"America lost twice in this congressional battle of political will—by losing the chance to gain the high moral ground by recognizing the Armenian tragedy and by angering an important ally. Turkey was able to benefit twice".

The US Congress has zero moral authority over any issue with anyone, except their own delusions of grandeur. Since joining Nato, Turkey has denied the very existence of the Kurds as a people; no language rights in schools, no Kurdish radio, no Kurdish TV, no Kurdish books stores, no Kurdish music allowed, not Kurdish CDs.

Turkish policy has been the cultural genocide of ethnic Kurds. Since Turkey is a member of Nato, this has also been Nato policy and since the US is part of Nato, this has also been US policy ... by definition

If the US congress had decided to denounce this policy; apologize to the Kurds for aiding and abetting this cultural genocide; expel Turkey from Nato; make reparations to the Kurds of Turkey; then maybe congress could lay claim to some moral authority.

They didn't, so they can't.

Instead Congress responds to a few gold coins from the Armenian lobby to vote on an admittedly useless resolution on a tragedy that happened over 90 years ago. Pathetic.

Kurds of Turkey and the Macedonians of Greece both suffer from "Denying Ethnicity" (See Human Rights Watch) and the US Congress could care less about both.

So much for Congressional moral authority.