Post by elizabeth on Mar 7, 2014 6:47:17 GMT
Hillary Clinton's Putin-Hitler analogy
Today's must-read
When Russia began issuing passports to Ukrainian citizens, it reportedly prompted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to compare the policy to Nazi resettlement of ethnic Germans prior to World War Two.
"Now if this sounds familiar, it's what Hitler did back in the '30s," she told an audience at a private fund-raiser, according to the Long Beach Press Telegram. "All the Germans that were... the ethnic Germans, the Germans by ancestry who were in places like Czechoslovakia and Romania and other places, Hitler kept saying they're not being treated right. I must go and protect my people, and that's what's gotten everybody so nervous."
Her words, the first time comments about the Ukraine crisis have been attributed to her, have given columnists license to play the "Is Russian President Vladimir Putin the next Adolf Hitler?" game.
Continue reading BBC article by clicking here
Today's must-read
When Russia began issuing passports to Ukrainian citizens, it reportedly prompted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to compare the policy to Nazi resettlement of ethnic Germans prior to World War Two.
"Now if this sounds familiar, it's what Hitler did back in the '30s," she told an audience at a private fund-raiser, according to the Long Beach Press Telegram. "All the Germans that were... the ethnic Germans, the Germans by ancestry who were in places like Czechoslovakia and Romania and other places, Hitler kept saying they're not being treated right. I must go and protect my people, and that's what's gotten everybody so nervous."
Her words, the first time comments about the Ukraine crisis have been attributed to her, have given columnists license to play the "Is Russian President Vladimir Putin the next Adolf Hitler?" game.
Continue reading BBC article by clicking here
