What’s the Point of a Summit? - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/07/opinion/whats-the-point-of-a-summit.html
Le NYT veut que #Snowden soit extradé.
Most of the debate about whether Mr. Obama should attend has centered on Mr. Snowden, who fled to Russia after his disclosures. The administration wanted him returned to the United States to face charges of leaking national security secrets.
Russia’s decision was provocative. Asylum is for people who are afraid to return to their own country because they fear persecution, unlawful imprisonment or even death because of their race, their ethnicity, their religion, their membership in particular social or political groups, or their political beliefs.
Mr. Snowden undoubtedly fears returning home because he would be arrested and prosecuted. But those fears do not qualify him for asylum. And does he really feel safer in a country where Mr. Putin, an increasingly authoritarian leader, has jailed and persecuted his critics?