John Walker, the Navy spy who defined crypto-betrayal, dead at 77

Opinion: If you want to call anyone a traitor, measure them against John Walker first.

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fadedtimes[/url]":2wdtaark]It's all a matter of perspective. Sure he betrayed the USA, but we had spies and informants Soviet areas, which lead to human death and damages. Both sides are evil when it came to these conflicts in the Cold War.

This issue is way too complicated to reduce to "both sides are evil". Watch a documentary on the gulags for instance.

The US was evil in Vietnam, and Central and South America, etc. But I am glad it wasn't the US government that collapsed to end the Cold War. Despite what the US has created in the Middle East in the last decade or two.

The justification for Snowden is that he woke us up to the potential for totalitarianism from our own governments. Walker couldn't claim anything like that, he was just helping actual totalitarians.

<overly long keyboard warrior bullshit>

If you were an expert on this like you claim to be you'd realize that the security of the country has always been a secondary objective at best. You're really worried about security and lives? There are better ways to spend the billions of dollars we give the NSA to spy on us. Pour that money into self driving cars, medical research, etc etc etc. There are a million and one better ways to spend it. Terrorism is nothing but a bogeyman used by the government to scare the populace into submission; how about we solve the larger issues first?