We have seen this show before when the Congress tries to engage in foreign policy:

This resolution was kicked around the House for years, and was almost voted on in 2000--until President Clinton-D pressed Speaker Hastert-R to postpone a vote, out of concern for the effect on the relationship between the United States and Turkey. In a hearing before the House International Relations Committee that year, the former Turkish Ambassador warned “But above all, our cooperation on Iraq will inevitably suffer. The support for American policy in northern Iraq, already slim, will dwindle immediately...”

Bad idea trying to chastise a reluctant ally for a crime committed almost a century ago by an ancient empire (Ottoman) which ended with World War One. And don’t forget our own dark history with native tribes in the 19th century.

This is different from dealing with a government (China) which TODAY is brutally suppressing religious and press freedoms (Tibet and Falun Gong), and enabling ongoing genocide in another nation (Sudan).

Good. Another Pelosi surreneder. Wise choice.

This sounds as ridiculous and worthless as what the Republicans usually do. Good thing she's dumping it. Best to NEVER do anything as stupid as the Republicans would. I hope she's learned her lesson.

Pelosi is pushing this resolution so she can hamstring the war effort and hasten America's defeat and ultimate destruction. Now, she's getting cold feet. Ahmadinajad and Assad must have told her to cool it. One can only speculate as to why.

This should have never been brought up in the first place, Turkey has been a loyal friend of the U.S. at a time when we need all the friends we can get. I also think it was a political move on Pelosi"s part to fulfill her promises to get the U.S out of Iraq.

No moral compass left in Congress either.

By the Way,
President Reagan briefly acknowledged the Armenian genocide in a proclamation on the Holocaust in 1981, so it isn’t as though the US officially denies that it happened.

I hope she has come to her senses...this kind of domestic pandering is what gets us into all kinds of unintended consequences on the world stage. Let's lets have one Secretary of State at a time.

How happy would we Americans be if other countries around the world started officially declaring the treatment of American Indians as genocide? Turkey is now a successful secular democracy with a pretty good civil rights record, not the medieval Ottoman Empire it was when the horrible events with the Armenians occurred.

Maybe Nancy is afraid of getting the Ottomon Empire mad at us. Congress is right on top of things!
james

It is about time!! I am not against the Armenian's but wouldn't it be good enought to have it put in history books?

Another Dem smoke screen perpetrated by the Pelosistos. We know it's happened and our sympathies go out for all involved. But what are these clowns in Washington doing wasting time and money (Oh! that's what they do for a living) digging up dead issues while American public policies and interests languish or are held hostage by foreign dicates and dictators.

What the heck is wrong with this woman?? What possible good can come of this WWI-related matter today in Oct 2007? It's VERY irresponsible to undermine our relations with Turkey at this time, and for what?? We need Turkey, as a moderate muslim state and ally, to work with us to ensure a stablized and peaceful Iraq.

Is Pelosi purposely trying to undermine the mission in Iraq? She needs to stop with these unhelpful, unneccessary distractions to our foriegn policy. Does she think she's Sec. of State or something. The timing of this move is mischievious at best, catastrophic at worst.

Well, "Truth Seeker" my great grandmother was scalped by the Indians, but I don't carry a grudge about it. My immigrant father was discriminated against and called ethnic slur names, but I don't cry about it. Pelosi is folding because this resolution will do no good and plenty of bad, like raising oil prices by raising tensions between Turkey and Iraq. The only consolation is: Pelosi and the Democrats could be busy doing real harm, but fortunately they have stayed occupied with silliness, meaningless resolutions and toothless hearings.

-Mark Twain

If you read today's news with any intelligence, you will see that Turkey was backing down as well. Turkey has been very good to the U.S. ... but the U.S. has been tremendously more good to Turkey.

Where will Congress and Pelosi stop? What's next..condeming Greece for something that happened in the Peloponnesian War??!!

Well whoop-de-do, the damage has already been done; with oil going over $88 and heading rapidly for $100.

Pelosi's sheer stupidity might just criple the US economy for the foreseeable future.

there's a reason why US citizens are not allowed to engage in foreign policy.

What, you mean Pelosi is not playing the same partisan game the GOP are so known for? You mean she is acting according to how she is supposed to act, and govern democratically with a majority consensus? GASP!

I'm all for a resolution condemning the genocide practiced by the Roman Empire against my Germanic and Britannic ancestors. I'm sure Nancy Pelosi (no doubt a descendant of some slave-holding Roman nobleman) wouldn't have a problem with this--simple justice demands it! ;)

Turkey should shut up on this issue: it was not even under the same government then. This all happened long before the founding of the Turkish Republic under Ataturk, and represents a failed policy of a failed government. Modern Turkey should actually favor this resolution.