The Wikileaks "Debate"

Have you noticed how the real importance and the content of Wikileaks' release of the Afghanistan documents has been woefully ignored. What is being 'debated?' "Military orders have been broken." " We are giving the enemy all the information to defeat us with ..." The documents do not give an accurate, complete picture ..." "Who is going to go after Asage?" "They are destroying our good relationships with our allies ..." "The data are from the past ..."

Hold on a minute, please! To me this all sounds like bogus, if I want to be kind in my choice of words. We are in a brutal war, have been for eight years or so, progress has been mostly zero and the cost of it is bankrupting our country. These leaked documents are giving us an insight into how this war is fought and how it has been going. "Nothing new" as the commentators said, but also "same, same" which nobody said, at least not in the MSM. Both of these comments are devastating. Nothing new and the fact that the same things are still going on are, for me at least, a terrible judgment of how things are going over there. Who has been writing about that? Go look!

The arguments cited above are actual quotes from newscasts spoken by highly paid 'experts' and commentators. Think about every one of them. Apply Common Sense. What are you left with? Empty dribble, if you ask me. If information like this, several years old, is threatening our National Security or the 'Safety of our troops' then we are in bad shape, and our enemies are in even worse shape. So we should have 'won' a long time ago. But we are nowhere near a 'win.' We hear the same old mantras from our generals, special envopys and ambassadors. Those mantras, unfortunately, have nothing in common with the real picture of what's going on on the ground, as they say. It does not take a lot of intelligence to figure that out, without the help of dull and 'not-saying-anything' commentators.

I am very tired of expert gurus on the major networks and in newspapers seriously spouting 'opinions' which say absolutely nothing other than what anybody who read the news could have said. Go figure. And stay with your common sense, regardless of what they are telling you or not telling you.