Posted on 12/07/2010 4:22:40 PM PST by FromLori
On his eponymous CNN show Sunday, Fareed Zakaria made the sweeping claim that unlike leaks about U.S. foreign policy in past decades, the still-spilling WikiLeaks cables do not demonstrate U.S. duplicity in foreign affairs. I think, for the most part, he's right. However, Zakaria ignores the fact that the cables do show that the U.S. has acquiesced in the propagation of falsehoods and duplicity by at least one U.S. ally — an approach which has implications for the U.S. domestic audience in our globalized news environment. In addition, the U.S. may sometimes have gone even further to divert public attention from its activities abroad.
"The cables don't show the United States doing anything duplicitous or underhand[ed] or scandalous. Now, remember, in the 1960s and '70s, America was often engaged in operations and policies that were clandestine and were actually the opposite of its stated foreign policy," Zakaria insisted Sunday in a commentary at the outset of "Fareed Zakaria GPS." "But now, in these cables, there are no stories of coups, attempted assassinations, or closet deals. Washington's secret diplomacy is actually remarkably consistent with its public diplomacy on Iran, on North Korea, on all kinds of issues."
No "closet deals"? What about the widely reported cable indicating that Yemeni President Ali Saleh told U.S. officials of his plans to continue lying publicly about the involvement of U.S. forces in military strikes against alleged Al Qaeda targets in the country, including a Dec. 17, 2009, strike that reportedly killed 14 Al Qaeda fighters along with 14 women and 21 children?
"We'll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours," Saleh said, according to a State Department cable describing a January 2010 meeting with U.S. Gen. David Petraeus.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Related here’s Glen Beck’s take on it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQUYfSo1i2E&feature=player_embedded#!
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“I don’t support this guy. I don’t support what he’s doing. But I’m really torn on this story. He is exposing the fact that our governments, all around the world, have been lying to us. It’s a job we’ve been trying to do but been pilloried over and over again for doing it. But I don’t want a guy to go to jail or be silenced for something he didn’t do.
This whole thing is not sitting right,” said Beck before proceeding to get out the chalkboard and gave the clearest explanation we’ve yet seen of the sex charges facing Julian Assange”
Fareed, being the muslim DimWit that he is, misses the point entirely. BO’s WikiLeaks are “underhanded and scandalous” in and of themselves.
Come on, Fareed, you don’t see anything wrong with BO leaking the name, families and GPS locations of our Allies in the War in Afghanistan? GIVE ME A BREAK!
I know what it means, and back in the 50s a local disk jockey, "Porky Chadwick" used the word and forced people to "look it up".
I've seen it many times in the recent weeks on many and varied articles and am wondering why the media push.
I know that the lame stream media, sheeple all, will "automajically" follow the herd, but this is going above and beyond.
I was going to email Rush on this alternate thought - I think Zero’s ulterior motive for ‘allowing’ this stuff to bubble up is that Hillary gets smacked down and thus this week’s statement she made about not seeking public office again - i.e., he aborted her attempts to plants seeds for running against him in 2012. Just saying...
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