Snowdon is a dummy

Frank, I've done pretty well in not addressing you for some months, but this comment to c.i. can't be ignored.

That you say c.i. hates America simply shows how far you seem to have travelled from the man I once believed you to be.

It truly saddens me to see the change in you.

I wish you well.

A gentleman cares about anything which bothers a lady.

I'm aware CI is often emotional. I know him as real.


That you call CI a coward?

You have lost me.

ci bad mouths me in posts to other people...like a child would do on a playground...or a grown up would do if a coward.

1 Chronicles 19.

King James Version.

19 Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.

2 And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?

[...]So far, the US government has refused to allow Merkel access to her NSA file or answer formal questions about its surveillance activities, a recent query to the German Bundestag has shown. According to a report in German magazine Der Spiegel, the NSA kept more than 300 reports on Merkel in a special heads of state databank.
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Above all, the Snowden revelations have caused great damage to America's image in Germany, with NSA surveillance frequently employed as the chief argument by Germans expressing sympathy or understanding for Russia's position.

An April survey by public broadcaster ARD showed that only 45% of Germans felt their country should position itself as an integral part of a western alliance, while 49% believed Germany's proper role was as a buffer between the west and Russia.

Merkel urged to press Obama on NSA scandal ahead of Washington talks

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[...]So far, the US government has refused to allow Merkel access to her NSA file or answer formal questions about its surveillance activities, a recent query to the German Bundestag has shown. According to a report in German magazine Der Spiegel, the NSA kept more than 300 reports on Merkel in a special heads of state databank.
[...]
Above all, the Snowden revelations have caused great damage to America's image in Germany, with NSA surveillance frequently employed as the chief argument by Germans expressing sympathy or understanding for Russia's position.

An April survey by public broadcaster ARD showed that only 45% of Germans felt their country should position itself as an integral part of a western alliance, while 49% believed Germany's proper role was as a buffer between the west and Russia.

Not sure what that has to do with whether or not Snowden is a dummy, Walter... but I think he is not.

And if what our intelligence community has done damages our image in the eyes of Germans ... I guess we will have to live with it.

We may be doing a hell of a lot more to help protect you...

Or you may not...

Frank Apisa wrote:

Not sure what that has to do with whether or not Snowden is a dummy, Walter... but I think he is not.

I'd thought that it was mentioned in the quoted part of the linked article.

Frank Apisa wrote:

And if what our intelligence community has done damages our image in the eyes of Germans ... I guess we will have to live with it.

Okay. Seems to be exclusively our problem that we want to maintain the friendship with the USA.

Frank Apisa wrote:

We may be doing a hell of a lot more to help protect you...

Helping someone is fine. Helping us is generous. However, you really shouldn't forget that at least since 1990, with the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany we were released from being an occupied country.

We are not occupying your country. We are helping...perhaps more than is apparent right now.[/b]

Okay so what you are really saying is that Germany may be doing a hell of a lot more to help protect the US...than you are doing in return to help protect Germany...

My point is, you're making a blind guess.