Saturday, July 20, 2013

Global Security Partnerships are possible. The issue is sovereign security from terrorism. Is it not?

The wrongful invasion into Iraq polarized the international community. All of a sudden the USA was more of a threat than the simple thought of a singular Superpower.

I don't know of one continent where President Obama hasn't extended a welcome to come together to close the gap on these dangerous groups. With the determination of the USA military to conquer the threat of terror related groups the world is becoming smaller. Telecommunications are becoming a threat to a country. Pakistan is a primary example of the explosion of telecommunication threat. The Pakistani police and military have had to develop methods using telecommunication methods to find those responsible for killing and increasing the tensions of terrorism among the people.

I am proposing through the example of Brazil how countries can develop partnerships with the USA to end the threat of well armed groups. It is something for every country to consider. I think there is promise in joint resources. The question is, do other nation's care to trust the USA again?

Biden Calls Brazil's Rousseff Over NSA Spying Tensions (click here)

..."He lamented the negative repercussions in Brazil and reiterated the U.S. government's willingness to provide more information on the matter," Rousseff's communications minister, Helena Chagas, told reporters after the 25-minute telephone call.
Biden repeated an invitation for Brazil to send a delegation to the United States to obtain more technical and political details on the case, Chagas said. She said Brazil accepted the proposal but has not decided who will go or when.
Brazilian newspaper O Globo reported earlier this month the NSA targeted Latin American countries with spying programs that can monitor billions of emails and phone calls for suspicious activity, citing documents leaked by Edward Snowden, a fugitive former U.S. intelligence contractor. 
Latin American countries fumed at what they considered a violation of their sovereignty and demanded explanations and an apology.
The American ambassador in Brazil, Thomas Shannon, acknowledged that the United States collects large amounts of data on email traffic but does not access the content of messages or conduct the monitoring on Brazilian territory. He said the reports did not paint an accurate picture of U.S. information gathering....