Blinded By the Light

As I've mentioned before, I am puzzled enough by the banality of the WikiLeaks on Iraq, Afghanistan, and now general diplomacy, that I wonder if I am being too fanciful to ponder whether this is a US operation. the leaks have reinforced what we know (if you've been paying attention), put the US in a good light absolutely or just relative to others, and bolster old claims about our enemies once questioned by the Left. (Hello, Syria supplies Hezbollah despite denials and our Arab allies don't actually need to solve the Palestinian problem first before they want us to strike down Iran's nuclear ambitions,)

But the simplest explanation is that this is beyond our intelligence people to pull off and that the WikiLeaks people are so motivated by hatred of America's war on terror that they truly believe that ordinary facts of war brought to light by their drumbeat of leaks damn us as war criminals.

Assange and WikiLeaks: a madman, drummers, bummers.