Obama managed to wreck relations with about 14 different countries in South America and Europe by forcing down the plane of a foreign president based on bogus intelligence.
Who in Moscow would benefit from passing the bogus tip on to Obama, knowing that he is impetuous, vindictive and lacking in common sense?
Oh man, Spy vs. Spy. Brings back good old memories. This used to by my favorite comic from Mad Magazine, way back in the day. Great stuff!
Oh, more to the actual topic … pffffttt … like I give a rats ass anymore what the hell Obama does. I couldn’t really care any less. It’s like putting a scratch on a crushed car. It really doesn’t matter anymore.
And the brilliant Valerie was answering the phone all day:)
“The world will have confidence that I am listening to them, and that our future and our security is tied up with our ability to work with other countries in the world. That will ultimately make us safer.”
21 November 2007
“And we will restore our moral standing in the world. We will once again lead the world not just militarily, but diplomatically, economically.”
10 January 2008
“We’ve strengthened our alliances, restored respect for the United States around the world.”
19 January 2012
“One of the proudest things of my 3 years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world, a belief that we are not just defined by the size of our military, despite the incredible feats of our military and the incredible sacrifices of our men and women in uniform, but we’re also defined by our values and our respect for rule of law and our willingness to help countries in need.”
15 February 2012
They were probably doing a field test to find out why prior info didnt seem to reach the WH.
I do not believe Snowden is in the airport anymore. Based on the attitude of the US government, he would have been killed already. It’s not like there is no US agents in Russia.
Most likely he in a safe place somewhere with the russian authorities. Of course they can’t or even want to tell this to the US, so that is why we see this show. Most likely the info that Snowden was on bolivian president’s plane was planted by the russian authorities to make US look incredibly bad. Which it was extremely succesful at doing.
Because that was propably the most outrageous incident that has come to light with this Snowden case. Ok, NSA listens to everything. It’s not like that is a huge surprise. Ok, NSA spies on US allies and trading partners. Bad, but yet again not totally surprising. Everybody spies on everybody.
But then to force countries that the US has spied on to breach the diplomatic status of completely unrelated president of a sovereign nation. They actually made Portugal and France deny passage through their airspace, divert his plane to Austria and then search it! Only because Snowden *might* have been there.
That is the scariest bit of the whole story. Portugal, France and Austria were the victims of US espionage. Snowden’s revelations *benefitted* those countries. Yet with just a nudge from the US, those victims became culprits and breached international law with no second thought.
The NSA must have some really heavy s**t on all of EU leaders to force them to be a part of something like this. So… about that national sovereignity…
Obama didn’t do that, those countries did it themselves. Snowden is not any kind of hero. He’s vermin. He’s a rat. He’s lower than a rat. He’s a parasite in a rat’s colon. The reporting on this has been pretty bad and people are basing an opinion on a load of speculation with extrapolation and more speculation piled on top.
Snowden needs to rot in prison. Maybe he can be cell mate with John Walker. They deserve each other.
So France hates Snowden so much . . . wait . . . what?
Bolivia has pissed off Europe pretty badly over the last few years.
This is payback. Countries are like small children with long memories.
In other news, I’ve completely run out of popcorn.
The french, portugese and austrians care very little what is done to Spain. There isn’t exactly solidarity between countries in this union of ours.
I had a strong dislike of swedes until Sabaton came along: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FaRAixpwIM
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This must have been some of that ‘flexibility’ he promised Putin.
BREAKING : Snowden to be pardoned, offered secure Government job as US Ambassador to Libya
Will Hillary be in charge of security arrangements?
imagine when she’ll be next to the nuke button …