Anthonyn Cordesman on Edward Snowden

Mrtennis,
Stossel provides a unique perspective that you won't often find in today's media. Being a Liberterian, my views are much aligned with Mr. Stossel although I keep an open mind about every issue and try not to let politics influence the outcomes of my thoughts on those issues.
Several stories have been written on comparisons of the US history and that of the Roman Empire. The playing field is too inadequate to make any reasonable comparison. The world is much too different. Things happen much faster.

Snowden is not and has never been a spy. He was employed as an
intelligence contractor and has become a human rights whistleblower, a concerned citizen. Only when his safety was compromised did he flee. If he didn't leave when he did, we never would have heard the name Snowden, he would have been locked up so deep in Guantanamo you would not have heard from him again.
I'll rep at an earlier post, Snowden is a hero. I hope he lives to tell the truth.

p.s. his odds for living increased greatly when he flew to Hong Kong.

Go see the movie Dirty Wars if you want some perspective on what the US is doing around the world.

Is this what our founding fathers had in mind?

Zen, What?

Csontos,
I don't know what you are questioning but your last post was one of the craziest I've read. If your not willing to start with facts the rest is noise.

Zen,okay, but in the meantime, how long are you willing to wait for the facts? History waits for someone to write it but it doesn't know who it is until it happens

History is the factual recording of past events.

No offense but how could you possibly not be influenced by politics regarding political issues? US history, Roman 'Empire', Snowden. You haven't made a single non-political statement.

Mine was purely rhetorical.