Did Snowden's espionage play role in Ukraine?

Edward Snowden walks out of work with top secret NSA information and Obama becomes hysterical. He screams treason and does a worldwide hunt to drag this computer-nerd back to the States, while publicly threatening to incarcerate him if he is ever caught.

Overreacting? Probably not. Wrong tactic? Absolutely!

The information was much more revealing than Obama had ever let on to us. His failure to secure our national security was monumental. Snowden then flies to Russia. Russia then marches into Crimea without fear of retaliation. Is there some connection? Common sense indicates, yes.

NSA spies and hundreds of Ukrainian business people and informants were probably exposed. Putin knew he was not going to be stopped. He knew where all the chess pieces were. Hundreds of Ukrainians will probably be imprisoned or executed. Read the writing on the wall: Obama was exposed as a sneak. Allies like Israel will soon discover this, and soon abandon reliance upon American support.

If all this is true, there must have been a massive exposure of our spies and international connections throughout the world who will suffer the same fate. Obama must know this. With the smug assurance of superiority, he once declared, “We no longer fight wars with horses and sabers” in a presidential debate. I doubt he knows what a horse looks like. But he did not want, for one minute, to express responsibility for this disaster, so he pretended to be the “greatly” offended party.

He could have diplomatically secured Snowden with “honey,” instead of threatening to imprison him while Snowden was still free. The house of Obama is on fire. Sadly, this is the substance of all great tragedies; a person too smart for his own good. He may take our entire nation down with him, if this charade continues much longer.

Donohue is a resident of Kalispell