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"We were among those who noted that the recent stories about the NSA
spying on politicians in Brazil, France, Mexico, Germany and elsewhere
seemed more like political theater than anything else. After all, spying
on foreign politicians, even allies, is what countries do. So the
supposed 'outrage' seemed somewhat silly. It really felt like the kind
of thing that politicians felt they had to do following the revelations,
because everyone expected them to do so. Any actual outrage was likely
tempered by the fact that their own intelligence agencies basically were
trying to do the same damn thing to everyone else (and some of them have
probably succeeded)."
An interesting and important point: The US has almost always been able
to get by without being called on the endless hypocritical behaviour in
the past, but maybe that's changing now.
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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