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So is Edward Snowden merely a "29 year old hacker," as president Obama said, and not worthy of his intervening to try and get him back to the United States, where he is to tried for espionage, or is Snowden dangerously more than a simple hacker? I don't know. And I would bet that you don't know either, not really, because in order to truly know, you would need to learn what information he has given up to China, and now Russia. Was this young Woody Allen look-alike just bragging to the world, inflating his ego to sound important, or is there more than meets the eye? Obama has changed his tune about Snowden because he knows that Putin isn't going to cave to his whining.
One thing for sure, even if Snowden was being idealistic about the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, how he went about fighting for it compromises our national intelligence. Worst of all, it makes the USA look bad--we talk about freedom, but we're no better than they are, China will say.
But we are better than they are, in spite of Obama's weakness.
Snowden needs to be brought back here and questioned. I have little doubt that he told China everything he knew and made things up along the way if he thought his life would be in danger if he didn't sing. I believe he would, or has already sang, in Moscow's airport where it really isn't Russia, it just looks like Russia in the gift shop. (I've been there and they do have great Matryoshka dolls.)
What is frighteningly clear from all this is that the world laughs at our weak kneed leader, the TeleTalker, the gifted one, the transparently opaque one. In South Africa he says the world judges a country on how they treat their women. In the countries he supports, like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and other Islamic countries, women are treated like pets, and often treated worse. They are beaten, stoned, disrespected, and have little personal freedom, and Obama supports this, because he says Islam is a beautiful religion.
But I digress.
Snowden must return, be questioned, go on trial, and suffer the consequences. He should be denied asylum in Ecuador, but their president has as much respect for Obama as Obama has for dogs.
Please, if you disagree, or would like to comment, feel free, because it is.
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One thing for sure, even if Snowden was being idealistic about the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, how he went about fighting for it compromises our national intelligence. Worst of all, it makes the USA look bad--we talk about freedom, but we're no better than they are, China will say.
But we are better than they are, in spite of Obama's weakness.
Snowden needs to be brought back here and questioned. I have little doubt that he told China everything he knew and made things up along the way if he thought his life would be in danger if he didn't sing. I believe he would, or has already sang, in Moscow's airport where it really isn't Russia, it just looks like Russia in the gift shop. (I've been there and they do have great Matryoshka dolls.)
What is frighteningly clear from all this is that the world laughs at our weak kneed leader, the TeleTalker, the gifted one, the transparently opaque one. In South Africa he says the world judges a country on how they treat their women. In the countries he supports, like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and other Islamic countries, women are treated like pets, and often treated worse. They are beaten, stoned, disrespected, and have little personal freedom, and Obama supports this, because he says Islam is a beautiful religion.But I digress.
Snowden must return, be questioned, go on trial, and suffer the consequences. He should be denied asylum in Ecuador, but their president has as much respect for Obama as Obama has for dogs.
Please, if you disagree, or would like to comment, feel free, because it is.
My latest novel, Jihad
Joe, is about Islamic
terrorism and suspense. In it I challenge the precepts of the religion
through my protagonist, Zed Nill, a journalist, captured by terrorists and who
is destined to be killed if the American President refuses to release three
Gitmo prisoners. Of course, American policy demands we never give in to
terrorists, and for Zed, the clock is ticking.
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