That'd be really mean. Citizens of Canada, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and the ROC should have the right to live and work anywhere in the EEA+Switzerland, and vice versa.
Officials and employees of the U.S. government don't have a "right to work" outside of U.S. territory unless the respective government agrees to it.
Which is why the German government's reaction is pretty half-assed. I mean, they invited the spies who spy on them into our country in the first place.
Obviously Germany can take care of itself nowadays but for better or for worse, in the eyes of the American government, you guys are still on parole.
It's rather ironic that the American government considers itself a suitable guardian of freedom and democracy these days.
No less so today than in 1945. It's just that enough Americans are willing to admit it now so it gets talked about.
I certainly wouldn't trust any other country to be guardians of freedom and democracy... so it might as well be my country
Just being honest. I don't mean to imply that what we're doing isn't wrong and shouldn't be stopped and that we shouldn't apologize to Germany for doing it...
But the hypocrisy line won't get you very far. Germans are still terrified of being registered and counted for rather salient reasons. That is also a form of hypocrisy.
