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Shawnee123 12-19-2010 11:00 AM
I just realized Assange looks like Neil Patrick Harris. I keep expecting him to say: these leaks, they will be LEGEND....wait for it...ARY.

Griff 12-19-2010 11:10 AM
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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 700903)
I would agree. But it is not the job of the these criminals to make such determinations. Often the most innocuous bits of information pieced together gives the clear picture. By leaving out various bits your enemy can never get a clear picture about what you know or what you think. This is not the role of some fools who think they know better. So we are stuck with what we have at this point. If we need to make changes from this point forward, so be it. We can make changes.
Most of our enemies are make believe, so leaving those who invent enemies in charge of classification is problematic.

TheMercenary 12-19-2010 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 700908)
Most of our enemies are make believe...
Could you explain that in a little more detail? I would be interested to know what you think along those lines. Are you saying that there are not nation states that would like to see the US brought to it's knees economically, through the stealing of industrial secrets, via various forms of state sponsored terrorism, or in the numerous other ways of undermining our society at large for what ever perceived reason? I am curious.

Lamplighter 12-19-2010 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 700904)
I just realized Assange looks like Neil Patrick Harris. I keep expecting him to say: these leaks, they will be LEGEND....wait for it...ARY.
Ummm.... I've never seen the two of them in the same place or picture.

I think you meant LEGER....wait for it...DEMAIN

Shawnee123 12-19-2010 11:23 AM
:p:

Clever. :)

Griff 12-19-2010 11:27 AM
Sure, IMHO countries like Iran and North Korea would love to break the US but lack the ability to project power in any serious way and can be contained diplomatically. The threat of radical Islam is enhanced by our lack of openness and our willingness to compromise values when dealing with Middle-Eastern regimes. China could be a real economic threat but those pirates have lashed their ship to ours so we'll go down together.

TheMercenary 12-19-2010 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 700917)
Sure, IMHO countries like Iran and North Korea would love to break the US but lack the ability to project power in any serious way and can be contained diplomatically. The threat of radical Islam is enhanced by our lack of openness and our willingness to compromise values when dealing with Middle-Eastern regimes. China could be a real economic threat but those pirates have lashed their ship to ours so we'll go down together.
Well how about the Persians? The elements of radical Islam includes non-nation state actors such as AQ. That does not include Iran, and it's proxy groups like Hezbollah, and the other nation states such as Pakistan and their explicit support, via the ISI, for tribes in Afghanistan. You think we should give these states more information about our intelligence or access to our diplomatic cables?

Undertoad 12-19-2010 11:37 AM
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Iran and North Korea would love to break the US but lack the ability to project power in any serious way and can be contained diplomatically...
. . . right up to the day they get the bomb. After that who knows?

Griff 12-19-2010 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 700920)
You think we should give these states more information about our intelligence or access to our diplomatic cables?
The threat of exposed cables is problematic but could lead to rhetoric matching action in international relations allowing the US to lead by example instead of despite example. Had WikiLeaks been in place back in the yellowcake time-frame we could have avoided supplying manpower to AQ for the last several years. What to do with Saddam would continue to be an issue but we would have had to deal with it honestly and openly.

TheMercenary 12-19-2010 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 700930)
The threat of exposed cables is problematic but could lead to rhetoric matching action in international relations allowing the US to lead by example instead of despite example. Had WikiLeaks been in place back in the yellowcake time-frame we could have avoided supplying manpower to AQ for the last several years. What to do with Saddam would continue to be an issue but we would have had to deal with it honestly and openly.
I see "honestly and openly" as differing categories of diplomatic national policy. You can deal with nations honestly but you don't need to share every single bit of information with them to do it. There is a lot of information that people just don't need to know IMHO.

TheMercenary 12-19-2010 12:27 PM
On a lighter note:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...a-banned-sicko

Stormieweather 12-20-2010 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 700933)


According to the Sicko filmmaker, Michael Moore, that "ban" story was made up by American diplomats.

Not banned

Lamplighter 12-20-2010 08:45 AM
I learned a new word today: tendentious

My God, Wikileaks lies... Michael Moore could never be tendentious.

Undertoad 12-20-2010 11:21 AM
This is the only Wikileaks cable that is false. They made it up because they wanted even secret channels to discredit Sicko.

Spexxvet 12-20-2010 04:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl (Post 700417)
Can someone bail me out of my parents' house so I can stay there too?
Just leak something. No, I'm not into golden showers.


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