hear something in his voice that sounds familiar. It something you hear in the voices and language of "true believers" maybe people who have been converted to their current belief or opinion. The language seems to some extent to come from a place of memorization or of the desire to conform.
That does not change the value of his actions or what he has done.
But he is still very young, and, judging form his voice, and you may dismiss my very subjective opinion and i won't mind at all (it's just my opinion based on my hearing), but I think he is very easily influenced and not firm in his mind.
He is fearful and rather immature.
I appreciate what he has done in coming forward. A more mature person might not have found the courage to do it.
And it is quite understandable that he is afraid. Any thinking person in his position would be.
But I think that the judgments some have of him may be their reaction to what I consciously hear in his voice.
As for his enthusiasm for the war so long after its failure and wrongness was obvious to so many.
I met people in 2007 who were still firm believers in that war, people who were persuaded even in 2007 that Iraq had WMDs and that our government had found them. These were not uneducated or stupid people, but people educated enough to be employed in a professional field.
So, the idea that Snowden would not have joined the military after Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech was obviously disproved does not surprise me at all.
It merely affirms my belief based on his voice that Snowden is rather impressionable. Formal education in which we come in contact with different ideas expressed in different ways by different people, oddly enough, while indoctrinating us makes us more skeptical. Education places in our minds a reservoir of varying approaches and ideas and permits us to think critically. Snowden did not benefit from that kind of formal education.
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