WikiLeaks Vindicates the Hawk
Diane Ellis, Ed. ·
Nov 30, 2010 at 12:35pm
Despite Assange's fanatic determination to uncover wrongdoing caused by U.S. foreign policy, National Review's Rich Lowry argues that the WikiLeaks founder has instead provided justification for war hawks the world over.
Assange is too blinded by zeal to realize that the content of his documents runs counter to his twisted worldview....
Our leaked diplomatic cables again do more to vindicate a hawk’s view of the world than Assange’s juvenile leftism. The Gulf Arab states are as eager as Israel, perhaps more so, for the United States to strike Iran’s nuclear program. North Korea is transferring missile technology to Iran, in a concrete expression of the Axis of Evil. Syria is arming Hezbollah. And on it goes.
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Nov '10
Re: WikiLeaks Vindicates the Hawk
The Iranians should be sweating bullets. Apparently, everyone in the world wants to see their nuclear program go BOOM. It is only a matter of time...
May '10
Re: WikiLeaks Vindicates the Hawk
Might these leaks actually affect the willingness of any nation to act? Or do they just make the ticking of the bombs louder?
Oct '10
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I want to agree and also say that it does remind me of a week-long series of articles the WaPo did back in the summer on the intelligence community. I was baffled by how many people have a TS clearance, around 875K people or so. When I was in the Air Force there was a poster in the bathroom that reminded us the 9/11 attacks were carried out using only non-classified information.
Jul '10
Re: WikiLeaks Vindicates the Hawk
These leaks will have far ranging ripples, though Assange is too dull a tool to appreciate what those effects will actually be. Lots of room for unintended consequences, but some may unexpectedly be stabilizing. Certainly there is no smoking gun of widespread American malfeasance by policy as Assange somehow imagined.
The outing of an international consensus against Iranian nukes cannot comfort the Ayatollahs, the strength of Muslim anti-Iranian sentiment defuses any American-Israeli vs. the Muslims posturing with regard to any such strikes. Iran must be running nervous calculations not just of what may happen in the short term, but of what may happen when the office of POTUS is again occupied in two years.
Nov '10
Re: WikiLeaks Vindicates the Hawk
I drew a similar conclusion from previous leaks,and this one reinforces my conclusion. The big revelations mostly seem to involve people who decry the US in public, but who work with us in private and provide us with the logistics and intel we need to keep operating. Apparently a lot of that America-hatred is just for show.
How about that. America is actually the good guy. Who knew?
Re: WikiLeaks Vindicates the Hawk
The remarkable thing is how deeply and truly Iran is alone -- except, perhaps, for China. And, assuming North Korea keeps Beijing's hands relatively full, I'm supposing not even China will go to the mat for the Mullahs. Two interesting lessons: one, Obama's Iran policy has been more or less vindicated -- if, two, Obama shifts his Iran policy in a direction he has not, as yet, been willing to go. Final thought: fascinating that it took Wikileaks to make plain the important continuities between Obama's foreign policy and Bush's.
Oct '10
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James Poulos, Ed.
The remarkable thing is how deeply and truly Iran is alone -- except, perhaps, for China.
It really isn't that remarkable. Iran is a Shi'ite Islamic Republic and almost all the other Muslim nations are Sunni (Iraq being a notable exception but there is very little love lost between Iraq and Iran). Remember that Al Qaeda murders Shi'ites for being heretics. So it is no surprise that the rest of the Islamic world doesn't see nuclear Iran as a very good idea.
Jul '10
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Again, the premise is flawed. (Typical for the editor of National Review)
The premise is that the United States should act as the world's policeman. I don't believe that this is in our charter. Many of our Nation's Founders wrote directly against this position. You can, as they say, look it up.
If the Saudis are worried about Iran nukes, let them take them out themselves.