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That the Genocide is the right word and that justice is the ultimate goal should not be any more headers in our press. It’s akin to presenting to a commuter in LA the merits of wheels.

President Obama ain’t gonna use the word Genocide. Period. His predecessors did not use it also, other than President Reagan. But that was ages ago, in another time and in another world, not in the iWorld.

The issue here is whether we want to make best use of the President’s use of Medz Yeghern and spin it in our favor to a wider audience or ignore it and cry foul that the President is not using the legal word, Genocide.

There is a good chance that President Obama may not use the word Medz Yeghern in his upcoming April 24 proclamation and may settle on the verbiage his mouth piece in the person of John Kerry used during his confirmation hearing.

President Sarkissian has voiced his preference between the choices he has. That does not mean that he has settled the issue of recognition of the Genocide once and for all. By the nature of the vocabulary used such an implication cannot possibly be construed.