Robert Stacy McCain, of the Washington Times' Insider Politics blog, cites counter-arguments to Andrew G. Bostom's AT article yesterday insisting that Congress must recognize the Armenian Holocaust. He writes:...the Armenians suffered horribly under the Ottoman Empire, [but] I'm nevertheless skeptical that congressional "recognition" will be particularly helpful to Armenians (or anyone else) nearly a century after the fact.Garin Hovannisian, a recent UCLA graduate and a descendant of survivors of the Armenian genocide, shares that sense of skepticism:That Congress "finds" the genocide to be a fact makes the tragedy no more real than its refusal, so far, has made it unreal. Truth does not need a permission slip from the state.As an heir, moreover, of an American tradition of limited government, I am annoyed that the legislature is poking into a sphere in which it has neither business nor experience: the province of truth. It is bad enough that a committee of...(Read Full Post)