In case anyone is wondering how Julian Assange, the apparent leader of WikiLeaks, is feeling about the recent batch of leaks, we have this item: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/16/wikileaks-founder-describes-possibility-casualties-acceptable-risk/.
In short, he doesn’t give a rat’s behind about any of the local informants in Afghanistan. He’s already rationalized any guilt away with the calculation that whatever happens to the informants named in the documents is sure to be outweighed by the lives saved by the leaks.
I’m still waiting to hear how lives will be saved by these leaks. I’m guessing that he assumes an outraged public will demand the US leave Afghanistan and thus save the Taliban from further loss of life.
I seem to remember that he gave assurances that all information about informants had been edited out before he posted them on WikiLeaks. It sounds like he missed a few edits, assuming he bothered to edit at all….
Has this guy ever leaked ANYTHING about people, groups or countries that might be considered enemies of the West like the Taliban, Al Qaida, North Korea, etc.? Or is he another one of those hypocrites who claims to be against all injustice, while making disclosures on only Western countries?
I remember a lot of that kind of hypocrisy over the years. I’m thinking of the people who opposed the US involvement in Vietnam on the grounds that it was an internal matter to be settled strictly between the Vietnamese. They demanded that the US leave Vietnam while remaining utterly silent about the Soviet and Chinese assistance that was vital to the North Vietnamese war effort.
And then there were the protestors who claimed to be against all nuclear weapons but who only ever protested American or British weapons and never once so much as sent a POSTCARD to the Kremlin complaining about THEIR nukes, let alone demonstrated in the streets of Moscow.
I’m getting a distinct impression that Assange is one of the same kind of hypocrites.
