“But, should any American or American ally lose his/her life because of Wikileaks, I’d like to know if you still feel the same way about them.”
How do you feel about all of the Americans (never mind the Iraqis themselves) who lost their lives in a fabricated war against former allies of ours brandishing American weapons we gave them when we were friends with them? How do you feel about all of those Americans (and allies) who died in a war against Vietnamese Communists, with whom we have so much trade today? I don’t know what is being exposed in these documents, but it might prevent farces like this in the future (or end current ones in progress).
I didn’t like a lot of that worth a damn. But two wrongs have never made a right and it makes no sense whatsoever to compound one problem with another.
All nations classify sensitive information. Blasting it on the front page of papers like the NYT is not an act of transparency-—it is irresponsible and dangerous. The Times and weirdos Manning and Assange have all the wrong associations with all the wrong people. I wouldn’t trust any of them as far as I could throw them and I don’t believe for a minute that they didn’t select out any documents in the pile that they would find counter-productive to their homo and anarchistic agendas.