WikiLeaks puts all its US cables online, unredacted
Saturday, 3 September 2011
WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange was at the centre of another political storm yesterday after more than 251,000 US diplomatic cables were published in their original form on the internet for anyone to read.
No attempt was made to redact the cables to protect whistleblowers or other innocent people named in them, provoking fears that some lives could be endangered.
The cables were published in batches, sorted by country, including 34,687 relating to Iraq, 29,431 from China, 19,714 from Afghanistan, 13,209 from Pakistan and 6,732 from Cuba.
Their appearance was announced on Twitter, with messages encouraging followers to read the cables and share what they find. One WikiLeaks tweet declared that it was "shining a light on 45 years of US 'diplomacy'."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/wikileaks-puts-all-its-us-cables-online-unredacted-2348388.html
It sucks that U.S foreign diplomacy has turned into a season of god damn Big Brother, except real people are getting screwed, there's no Big Jeff to keep shit from hitting the fan, and when we finally do get voted off there's going to no Julie Chen or jury house.
Do you know how much better the entire world would be if the U.S just minded their own business? I have all the support in the world for the troops, because the troops have one job: Carry out whatever mission it is that they are given and they do an amazing job. The problem I have is with the mission itself. What is the mission anyway?
Basically it seems like U.S Foreign Policy is to have as much influence on anything that happens anywhere whether it has any bearing on Americans or not. Oh, I forgot the best part. The American taxpayer gets to pay for the entire thing.
In my Live Free or Die world, there wouldn't be any U.S troops anywhere in the world except in the United States. We wouldn't have allies, enemies, puppet governments, espionage, CIA, or anything. The only reason for all this bullshit is that we run around the world like middle schoolers, talking shit behind everyone's back, telling everyone they are our best friends, then we give the Taliban a shitload of weapons to fight the Russians, then we give the Afghan's a shitload of weapons to fight the Taliban, then we give the Pakistani's a shitload of weapons to fight the Afghans, then we give the Egyptians shitloads of weapons to fight the other Egyptians, then they use them to attack Israel, and we give Israel a shitload of weapons to fight everyone. Then in the end we act like we're shocked that everyone in the world is fighting, and we prance around like a bunch peace keepers dealing with rabid apes that can't be controlled.
Almost every war/conflict/act of terror is being carried out with U.S weapons, U.S money, and being propogated by U.S assets. This isn't a conspiracy theory, its just how things happen. Friends become enemies, enemies become friends, super powers become third world countries, dictators fall... and so on. Things are always changing. That is why Thomas Jefferson gave us the piece of wisdom in the title above. NO ALLIANCES. If we didn't have alliances we wouldn't have enemies. Sure it may seem like a good idea at certain times to support a side that temporarily seems to have our values and interests at heart, but that is never long lasting and the blowback of our actions is always 10 times worse than the benefit.
I think the proof is in the pudding. No one knows the effects of our interventionism better than the U.S troops themselves. The only mainstream politician to agree with my stance is a certain principled Congressman and presidential candidate named Ron Paul. One of the most under reported fundraising stats out there is that Ron Paul ALWAYS gets more military donations than all the other candidates combined. It's amazing that he has the support of so many true patriots that put their lives on the line for this crazy mission every day, yet the other candidates have the audacity to call this foreign policy unpatriotic.
Ok, enough ranting this morning. I'm sure I'll continue some other time.
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