Read the rest of "The WikiLeaks Leaks Matter."Why should anyone care about the secret diplomatic cables WikiLeaks has disclosed? So what if State Department bureaucrats say unflattering things about other world “leaders”? Some people may be asking those questions in response to WikiLeaks’s latest disclosures. Okay, they say, leaks about atrocities on the battlefield (such as the first WikiLeaks disclosure, the “Collateral Murder” video) tell us something we should know about — the gross misconduct by U.S. military forces, condoned by the command all the way up to the president of the United States.
But diplomatic cables? Who cares?
We all should care. The documents serve as a timely reminder that the people who collectively call themselves “the government” are professional liars.
Friday, January 07, 2011
Op-ed: Why WikiLeaks Leaks Matter
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War supporters tried to label Assange a traitor, as if they were military experts (generals or admirals or CIA agents). Their hero Bush (an evangelist) is incompetent on the subject of war and morality.
But Assanges wikileaks barely exposed anything that would or could compromise the safety of our military.
And that's another aspect of this dogma. How can anyone compromise the safety of the most powerful military, regardless of where it wages war ? Our military (LOL) is fighting a barely equipped third world band of guerillas (patriots). The kind that resisted the British at Concord Bridge.
They use the wikileaks to FORCE people to either shut up or support their illegal, or useless war. They thought they had something big, something that could move everyone over to their side.
They're not experts on conducting war or on morality.
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