John W. Olver: “That is enormously kind of you and probably totally undeserved. But I am struck by the irony that tonight, this very…”

“That is enormously kind of you and probably totally undeserved. But I am struck by the irony that tonight, this very night, earlier tonight, there was a special order on a commemoration of the 79th anniversary of the genocide in Armenia perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire in this instance 79 years ago, 1915, and, of course, 50 years ago was the very height of the genocide in Europe which we know now as the Holocaust, and these really were questions about and the commented that never again shall these things happen. You know, over a 2-year period, over a 3-year period, at least, there have been hundreds of columns, syndicated by syndicated columnists in the major newspapers, the New York Times, the Washington Post in particular which I read quite steadily, and there have been thousands and thousands of column inches of reportage from the scene itself, and many, many editorials on the scene written in those papers. One of the most eloquent ones was the editorial in the Washington Post today. I had intended to read that editorial, "The Bosnia Disaster," it is entitled, and I guess I will read just a little piece of it. It goes through an enumeration of the things that have happened, but it ends in the final paragraph: There's plenty Washington could do. It could summon this country and others to a sense of the immense rolling costs of international default on promises to support a victim state.…”