I really hate to write anything that is in nearly total disagreement with those for whom I have the utmost respect, but there are times when that is necessary, if one is to try and remain as honest as possible in sharing their perspective. I'm about to do that now, as I express my opinion on the so-called Edward Snowden affair. I must take exception with the expressed opinion of perhaps my most influential mentor, Pat Robertson of the Christian Broadcasting Network, when he states that he finds the espionage leaks that Snowden has made to be less than a serious matter of breaching the National Security interests of our nation, but rather that he may have done our country a service by making public a scandalous over-reach of our intelligence gathering services. I personally am very concerned about not so much that which has been already revealed, but by that which might be available to be released in the future. Or rather, I'm more concerned about that which probably will not be released, because I'm sure it's all been in the hands of Russian intelligence analysts ever since Snowden arrived in Russia.
The very fact that Vladimir Putin has conditioned Snowden's temporary asylum upon the agreement to stop releasing further U.S. intelligence secrets should be cause for alarm on our part. Does anyone really believe that Putin is greatly concerned about protecting American security interests? Here is a man who began his rise to power by serving in the old Soviet K.G.B., where the only concerns for our security systems was to try and figure out ways in which they could be broken into, and even dismantled. If he wants to stop the releasing of secrets concerning our intelligence gathering capacity, we can be sure it's for one reason only. He doesn't want our intelligence services to know just how much their intelligence services already know about our capacity to gather intelligence. Therefor, whatever secrets Snowden has are already available to Russian intelligence, and if Snowden releases them to the public, we will know what areas need to be strengthened against Russian efforts to hack into our systems. They might perhaps develop ways of breaking down our intelligence gathering, or even our satellite-dependent communications systems which are necessary for providing a military response to any hegemonistic move on their part, such as a Middle-East invasion in the near future. Remember that Bible scholars have long considered the pathetically wishy-washy diplomatic response in Ezekiel 38: 13 to probably be our own government's, when it says: "Art thou come to take... a great spoil?" (God could have followed this sentence with an emphatic "DUH!", but He's better at self-restraint than I am.) Could it be that that's all our government can do to resist Russia's invasion of Israel, and the other Middle-East countries ( including the oil-rich Arab gulf states)? Could our electronic communications (including satellite surveillance capacity) have been hacked into by Russian intelligence and temporarily disrupted, making a modern military response to any invasion absolutely ineffective? This is all quite possible through today's technology and if Russia has been given a way to do so by Snowden's possibly treasonous revelations, you can bet that Putin would want to keep us from knowing about it, to stop us from counter-acting it.
Again, I'm treading on very speculative ground here, but if I'm right we'll never have any way of verifying it until it's too late. And the very fact that this has brought about an increase in diplomatic tensions between Putin and the Obama administration suggests that Putin is planning a scenario in which American approval of Russian policies will be unnecessary. It sounds as if Gog (oops!... I mean Putin) might be up to something diabolical! Gee, I wonder what that could be!!!
ADDENDUM: Today's precautionary shut-down of several American embassies due to increased Al Quaida telephone and internet activity, which tends to precede any major terroristic plans on their part, might be expected to center especially on Egypt, in general, and our embassy in particular. Both opposing Muslim factions in Egypt have ( in their minds, at least) major reasons for resenting American influence there, and the nearness of Ramadan's ending is a logical time for any terroristic plans of vengeance to be put into action. Al Quaida simply hates our guts for consistently siding with Israel on important security issues, and for selling them arms sufficient to defeat any Arab invasion forces over the past several decades.
The anti-Morsi moderate Muslims resent us for blatantly seeming to support Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood-leaning government this past year. ( We can thank our Caliphate-in-waiting candidate, President Obama, and his lame administration for that!) Anyway, one has to hope that this lame administration has at least learned something about how to protect our embassy personnel, as a result of the Benghazi fiasco, even if they can't bring themselves to admit the truth about their incompetence in the way they responded to it. One might surely hope so, but then again.........!
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