106 Years Ago

First, ANZAC Day:

The Gallipoli Campaign was Winston's Churchill's idea to knock the Ottoman Empire, "the sick man of Europe," out of the war. It didn't go so well, the Turks were far better at fighting than Churchill judged them to be.

Fortunately, in the next war, when Churchill advocated invading the Balkans, the "soft underbelly of Europe", those actually responsible for fighting the war paid him no heed.

Also, around the same time, the Turks got to slaughtering the Armenians in a genocide that, according to some accounts, gave Hitler inspiration for what he was about to order to be done to both the Jews and the peoples of eastern Europe.

For decades, the Armenians have been arguing that the United States should acknowledge that the genocide took place. Yesterday, President Biden fulfilled a campaign promise and did just that.