Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov blamed the Ukrainian government Monday for an uptick in violence in eastern Ukraine, saying Kiev’s forces were apparently preparing for a fresh offensive, as Ukraine blamed Russia-backed separatists for the escalation.
Never mind that, were it true that Ukraine is readying an offensive, it would only be true because the Ukrainian government has a right—a duty—to drive the Russian troops from Ukrainian soil and to bring the “separatists” to justice.
Here’s Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s view of “politics:”
I won’t pretend that this [homemade email server/classified email scandal] is anything other than what it is—the same old partisan games we’ve seen so many times before.
It’s not about Benghazi. And you know what? It’s not about emails or servers, either. It’s about politics. I will do my part to provide transparency to Americans[.]
Because it’s only politics that a Clinton, or any other politician, should be held to account for her misbehaviors regarding using homemade email servers to conduct State Department official business.
It’s only politics that a Clinton, or any other politician, should be held to account for her misbehaviors involving her handling of classified information via those servers.
It’s only politics that a Clinton, or any other politician, should be held to account for her misbehaviors involving her disingenuousness in claiming no emails passed through her servers that had classified markings on it, knowing that’s not the problem: having classified information, regardless of markings, is.
It’s only politics that a Clinton, or any other politician, should be held to account for her misbehaviors involving withholding such official records from State and from the National Archives in contravention of the Federal Records Act and the Freedom of Information Act.
It’s only politics.
This is the level of integrity and moral judgment that wants to be President of the United States. We already will have had eight years of that sewage by the time our next President is inaugurated. We can’t afford any more; our nation and our society have been damaged badly enough.