Originally Posted by
SQ421
Not to put this in P/R territory but why would/should any other country care if an individual becomes a terrorist target by the virtue of being a "US-born-always-lived-in-US-citizen", and care to the extent that it'd offer them their Passport (normally only issued to its citizens)?
I find thought that Canada (or any other country) would "offer US citizens a passport so the US citizen's risk profile is reduced" to be incredibly juvenile, or incredibly arrogant.
Rant over.
Well, another country might care if a person becomes a terrorist target by virtue of being a US citizen, since apart from anything else that diminishes us all, but you're right: they're not going to be issuing passports to non-citizens on that account.
Sometimes I think that people forget that possession of a passport is (in almost all cases) secondary to being a citizen of the issuing country. Having a passport does not make one a citizen, it is being a citizen that entitles one to a passport. (Similarly, not having a passport does not mean one is not a citizen –.there are plenty of US citizens, for example, who do not have a US passport, but that doesn't make them any less US citizens than if they did.)
It's also worth pointing out that the citizens of a number of other countries are also potential terrorist targets if US citizens are: notably the UK, Israel but also several other European countries and Australia – the US doesn't have a monopoly on this...