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Originally Posted by Codes
Am I the only one that thinks that some secret things should be kept... secret?
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We're probably all better off if our diplomats can offer honest and frank impressions to our governments . . . . . instead of filtered or politically correct impressions because they fear they would ultimately be leaked.
As well, we're all probably better off if our diplomats can have open and frank discussions with opposing diplomats on the understanding such discussions are confidential.
It's up to your government to put some gloss or "diplomacy" on what is said publicly.
On a lesser scale, in our personal lives, there's probably hardly a day that goes by where you don't practice personal diplomacy in the office or in relationships even though you might have darker thoughts rolling around in your head.
If we said out loud everything that came into our heads, we'd have a tough time in life, rolling from one crisis to another with effects lingering throughout our lives. We practice diplomacy as a means of functioning in a society with other people . . . . and they do as well.
The leaker is a genuine traitor and deserves a long jail sentence, moreso as he wasn't a civilian but a USA Army volunteer.
The best thing to come out of the leaks was visible and hard-to-deny confirmation that most Arab governments want Iranian nuclear ambitions stopped, even through the use of military force against fellow Muslims. It visibly isolates Iran in the region and probably confirms a nuclear armed Iran might start a regional arms race. But, again, that was already well-known.
It's a modest car wreck and like any car wreck, most of us are slowing down to take a look. But there doesn't seem to be anything that would truly startle anyone in there.
I saw one description of the Wikileaks situation, from a Pakistani diplomat I believe, as "mischeavious" and I thought that was the perfect summary for it.
Cowperson