That Woman Behind the Armenian Curtain
Filed under: Middle East
The Democrats have been drowning in bad news lately. A staunchly conservative Republican (and a racial minority to boot!) was overwhelmingly elected governor of Louisiana on the first ballot over the weekend. The New York Times (and Daily Kos) are moaning about their need to "double-check that the Democrats actually won control of Congress last year" after brutal defeats on national security and health care reform votes at the hands of George Bush, and moaning too as Speaker Pelosi is forced to back away from a crazy colleague spewing anti-Bush hatred under the withering fire of the conservative blogosphere. And the Democrats themselves are raising serious questions about whether their runaway presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton is electable.
And now, writing on National Review, Charles Krauthammer asks whether Pelosi has intentionally raised the Armenia issue to drive Turkish support away from the Bush administration on Iraq -- essentially, an act of treachery against her own country. He writes: "Turkey is already massing troops near the Iraq border, threatening a campaign against Kurdish rebels that could destabilize the one stable front in Iraq. The same House of Representatives that has been complaining loudly about the lack of armored vehicles for our troops is blithely jeopardizing relations with the country through which 95 percent of the new heavily armored vehicles are now transiting on the way to saving American lives in Iraq."
Let's not forget that today's Armenia is one of the few countries in the world to have closely allied itself with the Kremlin dictatorship of Vladimir Putin, thereby indirectly giving aid and comfort to such American foes as Venezuela, Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah. It begins to seem that the Democratic Party, drunk with its newfound power, is taking leave of its senses without even completing a single election cycle.
So, are the "Democrats" trying to accomplish by illicit means what they have been denied by democratic means? Does their own incompetence force them to adopt the tactics of subterfuge?
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