Of course we shouldn't ask a foreign government to expose the truth, but that doesn't negate we should want the truth exposed. >Otherwise, one could just as we

Of course we shouldn't ask a foreign government to expose the truth, but that doesn't negate we should want the truth exposed. >Otherwise, one could just as well say that the governments the US has interfered with ought to be grateful that we "exposed the truth" in their case as well. The US doesn't interfere by exposing the truth. Not comparable. >You mean, let's hope it's in the national interests of foreign governments to expose Republican corruption, and that they choose to be honest about doing so. No, I'm just stating that in this instance, this is actually what we should be more concerned about. The fact that we don't know all the truth. The fact that it is inconceivable now knowing the corruption in the DNC that is is likely that comparable corruption likely exists in the RNC and WE should expose it. >If we presume that the only way to achieve the former is to destroy the latter, then we're implicitly conceding the legitimacy of our own state. If our government is already corrupt we never had legitimacy to begin with. Nonetheless, this is not a call for foreign state actors to do what we should do. The whole point is that if a burglar broke into a house and discovered children who had been abducted. We would be focusing more on the crime of the abduction. We would realize despite the burglary it served us. We would not ask for more burglaries, but we would call for exposing more abductions if we thought more existed.