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Why is Iceland such a bad idea?

• alexqgb 13y ago
  Iceland's fine. It's going via Moscow that's the problem, at least in terms of the surrounding debate. It'll give a lot more ammunition to the "he betrayed his country" people, which won't be good for the exceedingly overdue conversation we were starting to have about secrecy and surveillance.
  • sliverstorm 13y ago
    Yup. I'd say Russia is probably third on the list of worst places he could go, after defecting to China and Iran, in that order.
• dclowd9901 13y ago
  My guess is that Iceland would probably bend to the US's will pretty easily, especially over such a high profile individual.
  • rosser 13y ago
    I'm not so sure. Consider the case of Birgitta Jónsdóttir.
  • insuffi 13y ago
    It always puzzles me how people, especially citizens of Murrica think everyone will bend over and let U.S. have their way. Small countries? Maybe. See case of latvian hacker Deniss Calovskis http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/u-s-charges-three-with-hacking/?_r=0 http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/u-s-charges-three-w... Now Latvia is widely regarded as a country that will definitely follow US's whistle. And this extradition case has been going on for, eh, 9 months now? Think about what independent and "ballsy" countries will do.