Why would you expect the US government, or ANY government to respect the right of privacy of citizens of other countries?
Oh I don't know... morals? A simple sense of common decency? I know, it brings a chuckle to talk about such qualities when talking about a government, but let's just pretend for the sake of conversation that the government is for the people and by the people and not a self-propagating hostile life-form.
The first duty of government is surely to protect the interests of the country to which it belongs
Do you not see that the foreigner-spying aspect of this this leak does immeasurable damage to US interests, especially US-based companies? Such simple-minded views are used to defend our drone program. To put it crudely, we can't go around the world fucking everyone else in every which way and continue to pretend to be the good guys. The concept of this country being a good citizen of the world hasn't even occurred to most Americans.
your co-citizens will be rightly outraged
You beg the question. They may be outraged, but I don't think they'll be rightly outraged. People tend to have very myopic perspectives in the face of disaster. I don't think that's the bar by which we should set our policy.
Oh I don't know... morals? A simple sense of common decency? I know, it brings a chuckle to talk about such qualities when talking about a government, but let's just pretend for the sake of conversation that the government is for the people and by the people and not a self-propagating hostile life-form.
The first duty of government is surely to protect the interests of the country to which it belongs
Do you not see that the foreigner-spying aspect of this this leak does immeasurable damage to US interests, especially US-based companies? Such simple-minded views are used to defend our drone program. To put it crudely, we can't go around the world fucking everyone else in every which way and continue to pretend to be the good guys. The concept of this country being a good citizen of the world hasn't even occurred to most Americans.
your co-citizens will be rightly outraged
You beg the question. They may be outraged, but I don't think they'll be rightly outraged. People tend to have very myopic perspectives in the face of disaster. I don't think that's the bar by which we should set our policy.