> Snowden is a coward
Really? I don't know many cowards that do such risky things.
Really? I don't know many cowards that do such risky things.
A hero doesn't slink away to a dictatorship to save his skin. A normal person would do this. Most of us, maybe.
But should we be celebrating that?
And it should also make us question who benefitted from what they were doing, and maybe realize that these people were geopolitical players batting for a particular not-so-nice team rather than independent heroes for freedom.
The US could do the right thing. It is a choice. But other choices are made, as is tradition.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/edward-sno...
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/07/05/how-the-snowden-leak...
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/07/02/national-int...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clapper#Testimony_to_Con...
... to a far worse place where he'll get executed as soon as he steps out of the line. He has become someone who says only what his handlers allow him to say. A hero doesn't prostitute himself out to a hostile foreign country.
There's plenty of whistleblowers who haven't made such deal with the devil and haven't sold their soul.