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Compiling the WikiLeaks Fallout
Now that the world has had some time to process the quarter million diplomatic documents published by WikiLeaks on Sunday, the media landscape is rife with reactions, threats, and warnings. Some US lawmakers have complained loudly and at length, saying that "WikiLeaks is putting at risk the lives and the freedom of countless Americans and non-Americans around the world." Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the leak "not just an attack on America's foreign policy interests, it is an attack on the international community." The Guardian points out that it's not the media's job to protect diplomats from embarrassment, and other US officials seem to agree, focusing their wrath instead on the security practices surrounding sensitive information. The Pentagon and other agencies are looking at ways to tighten security, promising increased internal auditing and banning the ability of systems containing classified information to connect to thumb drives or other removable media. Meanwhile, few officials seem to be commenting publicly on the contents of the leak, which are sure to cause diplomatic problems around the globe.
Every government in the world has secrets and, believe it or not, the welfare and security of their populations depend on these secrets.
every government has secrets. but, few of them lie about what they are doing, and hide their filth behind an excuse of fighting for 'freedom and security of the world and its citizens'. its outright lie.
north korea kills its citizens. it doesnt pretend to be doing it for freedom. china executes journalists. it doesnt say its doing it for freedom.
they are being repressive and brutal, bluntly, and flat out. they are not LYING about it.
but here we have usa. repressing and killing people worldwide, propagating filth, and saying that it is doing those for freedom.
that is what is the problem. had they come out and said 'we want to build an empire, and we are doing these for that end', i would even have respected them, because then they would be having the balls to declare what they were doing. its brutal honesty and conviction.
but they arent. they are killing and murdering people, kidnapping and torturing them, FOR freedom. see the irony ?
I am not American but I do see the value of keeping certain opinions and point of views undisclosed.
that is what exactly allowed usa continue to kidnapping people worldwide, and torturing them overseas. that 'secret' concept. secrecy allowed them to pose themselves as being right, pursuing liberty and modern principles, while TOTALLY violating all of them.
no. nothing should be secret. nothing.
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The problem is that when diplomacy is the game, everyone lies. Being pure of heart in this game kills people, sooner or later, and lots of it.
no. youre just fooling yourself.
korea doesnt lie about its shit. it kills its citizens for disobeying the state flat out. doesnt even feel the need to rephrase it.
china does the same. executes people. doesnt put pretenses.
only countries which are pretending to be for good, but committing evil deeds and having to hide them, are western countries so far. even in a 3rd world banana republic the dictators kill people for disobeying them, or 'for the nation'. they dont pretend that they did it for 'freedom'.
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Go argue with wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomat
("The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and friendly relations.")
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
Once again, people COMPLETELY ignore what I say, assuming that because I'm not chanting along with the angry mob that I'm against you. I'm not. Should Bush be tried for crimes? Yes. Should soldiers be executed for killing civilians? Yes. Should Gitmo be shut down? Yesterday, if possible.
What I'm actually saying is "while deplorable, the recent actions of the US military do NOT qualify as a crime against humanity, nor do they qualify the entire army for war crimes.
Bush isn't Hitler. He may have been the worst President since Hoover, maybe even since Buchanan, but Bush was incompetent, not evil. Keep things in perspective. The only mass killings of civilians in Iraq have been committed by Iraqis. There's no mass torture, no mass rapes, no cities being razed, no enslavement of populations. Get some fucking PERSPECTIVE: Compare Baghdad to Nanking, or My Lai, or Katyn, and then tell me that it's a crime against humanity.
You people need to get some perspective - you're getting to be as bad as the ultra-conservatives screaming "impeach Hussein Obama". Chanting "death to Bush" isn't exactly the rational and logical way to deal with the issue - but that's EXACTLY what you're doing. Get a grip on reality.