Wow, Kurtzman, you are either obtuse or just want the end of the ADL entirely. Don't you understand how momentous this is? Turkish diplomacy and those opposed to recognition have been doing everything in their power to prevent people from using the word "genocide." It doesn't matter how tortured the prose; the mere invocation of the word (without the qualifier "alleged" or "claimed by Armenians") is an irreversible blow to the aims of the "soft" deniers.

To Phantom: there were people in France, too, who while accepting fully the historical truth that what the Ottoman empire did to the Armenians was genocide still opposed legislation on this matter. I happen to support House Resolution 106, but I don't think there is a moral imperative to do so. Opposing the Congressional resolution is not equivalent to denial; however, refusing to use the word genocide when talking about the historical record is.