Watch What We Say

Not what we do:

President Barack Obama said Thursday that the United States would not accept any referendum on the status of Crimea unless passed with the approval of the interim government in Kiev.

Doing otherwise, Obama said in a statement at the White House, would “violate the Ukrainian constitution and international law.”

Shielding known war criminals from prosecution is also a violation of international law. So is lobbing missiles into countries that have not declared hostilities against you. Do any of the people who govern us ever pause to listen to themselves?

---Baron V