Perhaps I am misunderstanding your comment – what does this have to do with how great the US is? Snowden grew up in the US. Having the US after him means he is

Perhaps I am misunderstanding your comment – what does this have to do with how great the US is? Snowden grew up in the US. Having the US after him means he is excluded from traveling to a large part of the Western world due to fears of extradition (even making it out of Russia, due to flight connections and such, might be hard). Perhaps he is happy living in Russia for the rest of his life (though I doubt it), but since when does a desire for clemency indicate he (or anyone) views the US as the "greatest country on earth?"