It certainly should be hoped that no serious damage is done to US-Turkish relations. Fortunately, despite the histrionics, I doubt this resolution will cause any long-term damage. Any long-term damage will be the result of other, larger, more systemic issues that are much more substantive in contemporary terms such as natural gas politics, Turkish geopolitical ambitions in the Middle East and the seeming conflict between Islamism and secular ideology within Turkey as seen through the Ergenekon prism.

 That said, this resolution is a classic case of Congressional meddling in foreign policy in ways it should not.

I think most people find the Armenian Genocide to be a terribly obvious crime. However, nothing good can come from a Congressional resolution picking at these scabs. Statemanship requires the ability to think strategically. Clearly, that is not something Congress is all that capable of doing in this instance."