Ya know, seems to me people have missed the big story here when it comes to the Snowden fiasco - yes, it's interesting how yet another window has been thrown open to reveal yet more of just how awful a president Obama is - it's as if he's a disinterested CEO put in charge of running a company he can't stand, hates, but he does it anyway because the perks are just so wonderful - and yes it's interesting to see the open contempt which China and Russia are showing the erstwhile most powerful nation ever - watching this decline I'm guessing a few European leaders are waking up to the fact that a world where the US doesn't dominate is like to be a rather unpleasant, unstable thing - I used to joke that Obama's true goal in seeking the presidency was to destroy America, the ultimate smart bomb empowered by an idiot electorate and a sycophantic press - guess it wasn't a joke.
But aside from all that glorious stuff I think the big deal as concerns Snowden is how willing China was to turn him into a tool to excite anti-Americanism and how quick and eager the stupefied Chinese citizen was to buy into that charade - I find that quite distressing - it's always been my opinion that increasingly, in order to contain or suppress rising discontent or sundry other problems that might challenge the legitimacy of their reign, that increasingly Middle Kingdom's oligarchs would resort to the stoking of a dangerous hyper nationalism - and there ya go, with hardly any effort at all, using Snowden as a prop, they were able to turn America into the evil, not to be trusted enemy. That's disquieting.
