> I wouldn't call it a "tremendous sacrifice" then. Moving 10K miles away from you family and friends, never to return home isn't a tremendous sacrifice? Livin

> I wouldn't call it a "tremendous sacrifice" then. Moving 10K miles away from you family and friends, never to return home isn't a tremendous sacrifice? Living the rest of your life in fear of being snatched up or murdered by the CIA isn't a tremendous sacrifice? Okay, dude. > It would have been had he decided to face trial It's only a sacrifice if you submit corrupt justice? Yikes. > or at least not flee to a country that is the historical enemy of the US... This is the best option to avoid extradition, as you well know. > ...with access to who knows how many copies of secret documents so that he could save his ass. What a damning hypothetical! > I don't know how a trial would have ended, but considering how much public attention he got, including many supporters, he would have had a fair trial, or at least, fair enough for the cameras. This is weaselspeak for "we all know he wouldn't have gotten a fair trial." > Chances are that by now, he would have served his time in prison A decade in prison. For doing his duty. > His actions, though undeniably human, taint his status as a hero. Yours is the morality of a Vichy collaborator. True heroes submit to injustice? Bullshit! True heroes fight injustice and thumb their noses at corrupt centers of power.