A Most Disingenuous Use of Words

Mourning the death of 40 of victims shot down over Ukraine.

The early efforts by Washington-on-the-Potomac to tone down the gravity of the wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East by using language that minimizes the nature of those conflicts is one more clue as to the tepid leadership of this nation’s executive branch.

Words matter.  Several in particular which were in vogue until recently have completely mischaracterized violent events taking place in those two areas of the world.

The first term appeared on U.S. TV screens by some talking heads and reporters who initially called Ukrainian separatists in the pro-Russian stronghold of Donetsk “thugs.”