I think all these governments complaining about the leaks have something to hide. Facta are facts. They are just embarassed. Too bad.
Dammit.
I'm going to say this one more time.
Diplomacy can NOT be carried out in the open. Nations need secret communication from their diplomats so that the persons responsible NOT on the scene can form opinions, set up negotiating parameters, estimate dangers....I ask you, and it is so simple an analogy, but so dead on....I ask you could you carry on with your job, your personal relationships, your life with COMPLETE openess?
Of course not.
What about opinions requested and offered to a family member considering someone romantically, or a co-worker considering them for promotion, or a friend considering loaning them money.......how different would your assessment be if you knew the person discussed would get full disclosure? And which assessment would be more accurate??
Release of international diplomatic documents destabilizes the world. It is dangerous.
Julian Assange released technical details on the equipment used by NATO in Afghanistan to detect IEDs. Yesterday we lost yet another Canadian soldier to an IED. Assange through his carelessness, his arrogance, his stupidity, his egotism, could easily have been partially responsible.
Assange released names, and locations of good people helping our troops in Afghanistan........a move condemned by a real bunch of people working for openess Reporters Without Borders. Assange is responsible for the Taliban now hunting them.....and the loss of their Intel to NATO forces.
Assange should be assasinated.
Death to Assange.
He is our enemy, he has made that very clear.
