Except the "rest of the world" didn't shoot itself in the face with its own cyber weapons and had articles written about it.

US politicians and citizens are right to ask whether the current strategy is the right one.

Saying that you can either have this sigint or no sigint is obviously a false dilemma.

In fact your whole original reply is some bizarre technical justification for what is obviously a military strategy which has harmed the US and other countries and that can be changed by the US.