Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The Confusion Continues

I remain conflicted over whether Wikileaks people should be imprisoned for releasing our secrets in an effort to harm American foreign policy and war efforts or given the Presidential Medal of Freedom for bolstering our foreign policy and war effort by failing to produce any smoking guns of wrong doing. The latest is on the sources of weapons used by the Mexican drug cartels:

A secret cable from the U.S. embassy in Mexico exposed by Wikileaks claims the 90 percent of the weapons used by Mexican drug cartels come from sources in Central America. Light automatic weapons, grenades, and some anti-tank weapons were stolen from Central American military units and then smuggled into Mexico. This story runs counter to the allegations that US sources (pawn shops, gun shows, and US gunrunners) have armed Mexico’s cartels.

This is especially funny since the anti-gun crowd and our own administration repeats the lie that 90% of the cartel's weapons come from America. The credibility of the leaked cable is bolstered by the fact that our own government found it necessary to ship weapons to the drug cartels to try and prove that American sources are responsible for the guns in drug dealers' hands.

I don't rule out the possibility that Julian Assange will get his own statue inside CIA headquarters one day. Even more humorous, he is still celebrated by the left as a hero even though he's nailed America for nothing.