Should she have been pardoned? The answer is a clear and decisive, No!  Being pardoned presupposes the notion that under the presented evidence you should have been convicted.  That is what my heart tells me.  On the other hand though she knowingly and willingly for what ever reason violated her country’s laws.  Are those laws right or wrong, that isn’t for anyone to say except the people who live under them.  The moment we presume to tell other countries they are barbaric disappointments, like the leaders of most free western countries did,
then we give them the same right.  The moment we take action to change those laws and customs as we have done in Iraq and Afghanistan, we give other that same right to change not only our laws but our functioning government.  Pandora’s box, I fear, is already open.

If direct intervention is bad, then what do we do?  We open our borders and lead by example and fostering within our borders. Open immigration is what we need but that is another argument.