There are all manner of agendas and influences, few loyal but to themselves (and those they serve) and fewer still who can understand the difference.
What “diplomats” say to and about one another has always been parts hypocrisy, prevarication and outright childish comportment.
Life as it has been rolled out by the owners of the bedrock is at best a twisted, tortured, tormented understanding of “reality” It is the reason we are where we are. It is a world of games. Games not meant to make the world better for humanity but only just for the few.
I’ve written about the tendency of Euro Anglos to “double-speak.” Recognizing and admitting that goes a long way toward understanding the reaction (not response) of leaders on the world stage.
What the cables reveal is a Tammany Hall, backroom deal style world no more worthy of respect than Boss Tweed.
It is understandable that our rockstar wannabe bootlicking lapdogs of the oligarchs might be angry from embarrassment at having been exposed as “the man behind the curtain …” They should be. The unmendable misfortune is that Americans have such short attention spans.
In a republic called “democracy” which we are told is governance “of, by and for the people” should there not be a certain level of awareness?
If the spies key players have spying on each other had not already exposed---did not know what is in the cables then those are fairly useless spies, no?
So what these cables reveal is what is at least a two-tiered understanding of world events. Those who would be king would rather you didn’t know that. This is the same mindset that brought us the Great Depression, today’s Great Recession, two world wars and our pointless and unnecessary presence in the Middle East---not to mention our hypocritical involvement in the “two-state solution.” It is a world so disconnected from the banal and mundane of the day-to-day that it is always a surprise---but only to the masses.
Otto von Bismarck
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_wikileaks_security
Top 10 revelations from WikiLeaks cables
Leaks: China knows less about NKorea than thought
BEIJING – China knows less about and has less influence over its close ally North Korea than is usually presumed and is likely to eventually accept a reunified peninsula under South Korean rule, according to U.S. diplomatic files leaked to the WikiLeaks website.
WikiLeaks: China Is Frustrated With North Korea
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/30/131687788/-der-spiegel-studied-leaked-cables-for-weeks
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/30/131687812/wikileaks-a-reminder-of-the-pentagon-papers
Blog of the Nation
http://www.npr.org/blogs/talk/2010/11/30/131694827/november-30th-show?sc=nl&cc=totn-20101130#one
WikiLeaks documents reveal sensitive U.S. cables: report
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2010/11/wikileaks_documents_reveal_sensitive_us_cables_rep.php
Clinton calls leaked documents attack on world
Clinton: Wikileaks release an 'attack on international community'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/29/AR2010112903231.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics
this harkens to the day when monarchs could imprison anyone for anything because they said so!
Lawmakers Call on Administration to Prosecute WikiLeaks, Designate as Terror Group
“Top Republican congressman calls on the State Department to designate WikiLeaks as a 'foreign terrorist organization,' as he and other lawmakers demand the White House find a way to prosecute founder Julian Assange in the wake of the group's latest document dump”
And these are the people who are angry many of “we the people” don’t think there is an “American exceptionalism?” Please.
American exceptionalism: an old idea and a new political battle
What exceptionalism ever existed---existed at the outset of this republic. It’s been mostly a memory since.
From Texas Red: a cratered landscape of prisons, deplorable apartheid public education, lack of healthcare and politicians and majority population intent on keeping it that way…
Hasta Siempre
Hasta Siempre
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