Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publication of the take is

Re:Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publ... by saiya-jin on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @11:10AM (#12297960)

I think many people of vietnam, cambodia, laos, indonesia, angola, nicaragua, grenada, most of the middle east, afghanistan, pakistan [1] and so on would strongly disagree. Potentially lesser evil out of 2 evils ain't no good choice.

[1] http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/interventions.html

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Re:Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publ... by altcognito on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @11:23AM (#12298036)

Most of these countries (or regions) never took up capitalism, free markets, and liberalism. Being partners on either side of a proxy war obviously didn't help.

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Re:Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publ... by asveikau on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @11:59AM (#12298289)

So they deserved it then? Please keep in mind you're talking about many innocent bystanders being killed as an outcome of US foreign policy.

I don't think it's entirely black and white in the other direction either but your comment strikes me as crass and indifferent towards human life, dehumanizing, confusing people with their larger society and government.

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Re:Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publ... by pjc50 on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @12:10PM (#12298386)

The classic example of a generally stable and democratic country being overthrown into illiberalism and mass murder by the US is Chile, which was missing from that list.

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Re:Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publ... by rabeiusura on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @01:32PM (#12299037)

Would not call 73's chile stable, unless you consider current venezuela a stable country which i do not.

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