Day: December 1, 2010

Is It All Just Silliness?

WikiLeaks!…….now here is the subject of the week……everyone has an opinion on what is to be done with this Assange dude that has leaked these quarter million documents…I have heard that he is guilty of treason or something just as strong…..as I think back to the release of the “Pentagon Papers” by Daniel Ellsberg (yes I am that old!) I recall hearing a bunch of the same criticism….that Ellsberg was killing American soldiers or that it would harm our diplomatic mission for years to come…..on and on and on……

To begin with…this latest release of previously secret documents is mostly gossip, NOT intel of any kind….I mean when you have emails or the like that calls Sarkozy a “naked emperor”…..that is NOT something that is classified……yes there has been some released that could be seen as some sort of secret….. but treason?

I heard Mike Huckabee say that the person releasing these was guilty of treason and should be executed…..made me think back…..some little toad named Scooter outed an active CIA agent named Plame…..did anyone on the Right call for him to be executed?  Do not hurt yourself….NO THEY DID NOT!  Even though it is a massive crime to do so…..this is just a political football….it is a use of news to make points back home and reinforce the idea of “American Exceptionalism”……..

But the airwaves are full of people, some well intentioned, calling for someone’s head….mostly the head of Assange….but ask yourself this…..

How did a lowly PFC get access to all this info if we have such a good security system in place for our computer system that is so basic to our national security?  And now the US has changed the way info is accessed…kinda like closing the proverbial barn door after the cows have made their escape……and is NO one looking at the higher ups that allowed this type of thing to happen?  I mean the Minister of Defense in S. Korea resigned after the N. Korea attack last week….why is the US placing the blame solely on the shoulders of this lowly analyst….apparently it was not that hard to retrieve the info….someone at the top was asleep at the wheel….and they are the REAL criminals in this continuing saga……I am sure this is FAR from over!

Another point…..this is being used to avoid talking about the real issues that face Americans….lack of jobs, a struggling economy……it is all smoke and mirrors….hoping that the American people will feel betrayed by someone other than their elected officials…..nice try….but it does not work…..well maybe on idiots!

“Cut The Head Off The Snake”

You know that every time we try to get more democracy going in the Middle East we are told to mind our own business and that they will do things in their own time…..(a paraphrase….sort of…..).  The Saudis refuse to give women a chance to be more than second class citizens……or to let them vote or drive or do anything on their own…….

Off the subject for a minute…..I will get back to the point….eventually…..

Wikileaks is all the rage this weekend……everybody in the government is all a twitter about secret documents being released to us, the unwashed masses…..enough about that….in a cable or email or whatever there is one from King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia…….

In a report of a 2008 meeting with U.S. General David Petraeus, the Saudi ambassador to Washington said King Abdullah wanted the White House ‘to cut the head off the snake’ before Iran developed nuclear weapons and threatened its neighbours in the Middle East.

The secret document revealed that the Saudis demanded ‘severe U.S. and international sanctions on Iran, including a travel ban and further restrictions on bank lending’.

It added that ‘the use of military pressure against Iran should not be ruled out’.

Let me see if I get this right…….they do not want us to interfere in their “internal” affairs but they want us to attack Iran…….is that about it?
Let me see Saudi buys a massive amount of planes, tanks, arms, and do-dahs from the US….may I suggest that if they want Iran dealt with then maybe they should stop hiding behind their women’s skirts and do it themselves…..Why is it up to the US to do the dirty work?