Folks, I think that whoever compromised all those documents to the WikiLeaks site should be prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law, and punished accordingly. I'm also convinced that the people behind the WikiLeaks site should be investigated, indicted, prosecuted, and punished according to U.S. law.
The publication of these documents may not change existing policy, but it endangers the lives of US and allied personnel in a war zone. This is going to cost lives, mark my words. The guilty parties are going to be responsible for many deaths. Don't tell me they can hide their negligence behind the First Amendment to avoid their responsibility.
This morning I saw the WikiLeaks president admitting to Meredith Vieira in the Today Show that these deaths would count as "collateral damage" in his quest to influence policy. He disgusted me.
Mr. Obama, Mr. Attorney General, earn your pay checks! DO SOMETHING.
If you're Catholic, you belong to the largest Pentecostal Church in the
world...
-
As a teen, I thought the clergy were supposed to do everything. We laity
were just called to pray, pay, and obey. Oh yes, and keep the commandments,
of cou...
Posts
2 comments:
A gentle reminder; Bush and Obama are directly responsible for an unknown number (but obviously thousands more than whatever hypothetical number anyone can attempt to apply to the wikileaks people) of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I don't think these documents are sufficient to achieve any end to the war, but I also don't think it is helpful to make inordinate assessments of possible damage; U.S. soldiers are at risk primarily because they are on other people's property- folks around the world are known to occasionally shoot at intruders. Poor Afghanis will shoot at the people who come through their neighborhood. It's highly doubtful that the same poor Afghanis will pay to get all these documents translated into their language and/or hire someone literate to read them all on the off chance they can actually use some information in them to their advantage.
I don't like the spin or P.R this wikileaks guy did either, but I think he's using the vast number of documents as enticement, covering the fact he really doesn't have much of quality- and wikileaks' reputation will take a hit as the media realizes this.
I can only answer as a military man. The documents reveal sources, procedures, tactics, and operations. And the poor Afghanis aside, the fact is that our enemy is anything from stupid. This is a treasure throve for them and they will exploit these documents just as we exploit them.
US soldiers, sailors, marines, and airment are at risk because they volunteered to defend our country anywhere and always. They go to Afghanistan after 3,000 Americans died on 9/11. These Americans didn't deserve to die due to whatever mistakes, real or perceived, made by our decisionmakers since 1979.
War is hell, Sherman once said, and without willing to justify every mistake, every atrocity of war, the fact remains that we have a right to defend ourselves. Our foreign policy, our national interest, will not be subordinate to the whims of people who think that women should be treated as things, and that non-Muslims should be made to submit to dhimmitude.
So this is a worthy fight and the fact that many from among us cannot conceive of victory is because they think that our civilization is not worth defending. I can see their point, considering how banal, anti-Life, and anti-Family much of it has become. But with our civilization goes our liberty and in my view that's too much to lose. Liberty is worth defending.
The Wiki-Leaks, probably facilitated by a 22 year-old snotty kid, and their subsequent exploitation by a man who hates the West so much, has made that job much more difficult. The fact that he expects to be safeguarded by the freedoms he has imperiled make his acts much more vomit-inducing. That man lacks honor, character, and integrity.
I hope very much that the government indicts him, and jail his butt.
-Theo
Post a Comment