In her latest op-ed piece, Trudy Rubin expresses concern that WikiLeaks may lead to a downgrade in the “hard-won trust between the United States and the leaders of Russia, China and Arab countries.”
Hard-won trust? Downgraded by publishing an exposé of backstabbing behavior? Isn’t that the same as the philanderer blaming the private eye for the inevitable downgrade in marital trust that follows exposure of the latest affair?
When it comes to foreign affairs (pun intended), all are unrepentant philanderers. The exposed cables are not a shock to anyone concerned. Maddening and politically problematic. But nothing that would downgrade trust that never existed in the first place.
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Trudy must not get to travel much, or read much, or talk to anyone who comes from or has visited much in any country outside of the USA. For most part, the leaders of those countries (a) know far more about America’s dirty, cynical dealings than Julian Assange or his wikileaks readers will ever find out in a million years, and (b) already can’t stand the US leadership. As for the foreign leaders who actually like the USA, the public in their respective countries already knows that they’re puppets of America, that they’re on the take, and they can’t stand those leaders. Talk about hard-won trust … pfffffttttt
This just demonstrates the extent to which fantasy permeates most media. Delusions do serve a purpose. They protect the mind from fearful realities.
The only way trust can be earned is if WikiLeaks leaks documents that say, “Ya, America is totally being honest about staying out of your business.”
I for one have no problem with Wikileaks, but my biggest problem is the response by members of Congress and my fellow citizens. All of this talk of treason, filing of criminal charges, terrorist acts is complete nonsense. I have yet to read one quote from a politician who gives the Pentagon a dressing down for allowing a service member to simply download this information onto a flash drive.
Is the information embarrasing? Of course.
Are the contents at all surprising? Not at all.
Should the American Public be surprised? Not at all.
Do other gov’ts have this same candid opinions of our own diplomats/leaders? Of course.
Wikileaks is a good thing because it forces us, the american people, to finally accept the type of world we live in. The only problem the gov’t has is that it’s unfiltered and they can’t ‘dress it up’.
Good points. What concerns me is how Amazon.com and PayPal have folded under extralegal political pressure and have cut their ties with Wikileaks. The U.S. government has not yet formally charged Assange or Wikileaks with anything and it remains to be seen if they really can. However, that did not stop Lieberman from picking up the phone and telling Amazon to remove Wikileaks… in the name of “national security”. The EFF wrote a good Deep Links blog about this. Amazon legally didn’t have to do it, but caved to the pressure. What precedent does that set? Will they someday come after the Mises Institute or other websites critical of U.S. policy?
Also, who are these “hackers” attacking the Wikileak servers? Freelancers voluntarily working for the cause of government? Palin admirers? I doubt it. In any case, aren’t they the ones behaving illegally now?
So there is extralegal political pressure on Amazon and PayPal… there are probably government employed “hackers” illegally attacking a website “they don’t like” and that “embarrassed” them and suddenly Assange is accused of “rape” (coincidence of course). Somebody tell me how these governments don’t behave like a criminal gang.
Well the rape case has been out there for over a month. The Swedish prosecutor isn’t even sure she has a case which is why they have been indecisive. Initial reports about the supposed “rape” is that the two women pressing charges are really pissed off that they individually weren’t this guys ‘main squeeze’.
I totally agree. A relationship that’s built on lies….is not a relationship. Its disaster waiting to happen. And how would Russia react to finding out that everything America said they were doing and (what they claimed didn’t do) were lies?
WikiLeaks is a hero to the world for exposing the truth. Truth that otherwise would have damaged any “false” progression in the future once they were exposed.
It best to just get it all out now.
I can’t really understand, why not many seem to see that Wikileaks is serving the power elite who has hijacked America, who doesn’t care about the constitution, who is sending american soldiers into wars, which can (and shall) not be won, who destroys delibarately the American economy by destroying the currency.
It ist really sad, that the creators of this Wikileaks scheme were so successful in deceiving the critical mind and controlling it in this way.
I can’t wait til wikileaks drop the BoA Fraud Documents…
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