"Most Americans, including the US media, still remain somewhat oblivious to the international implications of what their government has actually done here. With its diplomatic rating already hovering somewhere beside North Korea, the Obama Administration appears to have now lost control of the Snowden Affair completely, as well as being exposed as unable to take any moral position suitable for the international community it purports to lead. The same could be said for its involvement in arming proxy terrorists in Syria, imposing, crippling sanctions in Iran, installing the failed Islamist government in Egypt, and destroying the country of Libya – not to mention the US torture center in Guantanamo Bay, or the country’s policy of extrajudicial assassinations of foreigner through the use of unmanned drones. All in all, what clever operators in Washington DC thought would be a casual exercise in the flexing of its imperial muscle, may have triggered the most significant diplomatic meltdown of the Obama presidency. "
Posted on: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 18:41:58 +0000