WIKILEAKS

Thousands and thousands more of pages of government documents, "leaked." Will this never end! I honestly don't know how I feel. On the one hand, I want to kick the ass of whoever let some Sp4 ( lower ranking enlisted person--the one accused and now at Leavenworth, the long course. There's also a great Army school at Leavenworth, Command and General Staff College) have access to classified documents. Think how stupid that is. It isn't to disparage young enlisted soldiers. Many of them are in Afghanistan dying for God's sake. But, think of it like this, if this young troop wasn't leaking documents, he's be some highly paid young 20 something in Silicon Valley or hanging out at North Beach in San Francisco in some bar trying to get laid. How much depth of experience does a young kid like this have? Give me a break. And, the military let's this guy have assess to all this classified material? PLEASE!! Damn stupid. I personally am amazed at the volume of it all. And, do we think this asshole at Wikileaks gives a s... about this young guy. He claims to be some idealist. Let's try opportunist.

Now for for the leaks themselves, embarrassing and revealing. In a sense, we can't have it both ways, open society and state secrets. Some of the embarrassment on Americans' parts, downright righteous indignation I would think. However, let's face it, most Americans will give an obligatory yawn and get on with their Christmas shopping. However, what about the revelation that we forked over millions in cash to a corrupt government official in Afghanistan and turned our head? We are talking cash here. Appalling and now we want to know who was that American official who turned his head? And, then we have the revelation that the president of Yemen was complicit in some drone attacks which may hinder future operations. Who knows. Also, the nations like Saudi wanting us to take care of Iran-- made me smile. Yeah, "let America do it and then we can jump in and condemn them." Sorry MFers. Maybe we ought to give the "leaker" a medal if in the long run, we are forced to clean up a few things.