Having failed miserably to force a US retreat in Iraq, House Democrats and their skittish Republican counterparts have now resorted to asymmetrical political warfare against President Bush, his administration and US military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan.

About 70% of all supplies supporting current US combat operations flow through Turkey. Its strategic location has made the air base at Incirlik a vital lifeline to the US military. It doesn’t take a legal scholar to articulate the implications to Iraq or Afghanistan if Turkey denied access to Incirlik. On October 10, 2007, over the objections of the Bush Administration, the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a non-binding resolution that Chairman Tom Lantos and Speaker Nancy Pelosi insist merely acknowledges that the forced expulsions and murders of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900’s were genocide. This resolution has surfaced regularly for years. Even Bill Clinton believed so strongly in the present-day foreign policy damage it would cause, that he urged Congress to withdraw the measure. Yet many in both parties still support it.

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