The Snowden Revelation That Might Start a War

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184. Huh?

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You mean there is large-scale international spying going on?

If I may paraphrase Louie from Casablanca: "I'm shocked, shocked that there is spying going on in this establishment."

C'mon, that 's nothing new. And it's still not Snowden's decision to reveal what the US or Aussies or any other country are doing covertly. You can't possibly think the Indonesians aren't spying on Australia as well. Now because of this revelation they have to take actions to save face which may lead to sabre-rattling or even hostilities. Snowden would of course share some blame, for without the revelations their anti-people smuggling cooperation would have continued.

And what makes a somewhat naive 29-year-old (A TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD, GODDAMMIT) who ditches everything, including his girlfriend without notice and runs to China with terabytes of stolen information, think he's the one to make those decisions?

There are reasons one has to be at least 35 to run for president — like more life experience and more mature judgement, which Snowden clearly lacks, and is why he's now stuck in Russia and pinning to come home.

I don't think he thought it through too well.