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Originally Posted by Flames Fan, Ph.D.
Since the Iraq war era began, I'm hard pressed to find any examples of the government and military accountability that you (rightly) suggest is part of the process.
My view is that it's clear these institutions have currently failed the US public over the last decade. I see no reason for the populace to remain affixed to a framework that is not functioning.
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We have seen investigations into prisoner abuse, we have seen investigations into civilian casualties. I would question the consistancy of of these investigations.
I would counter by saying that the failure is in the court systems after these investigations are complete.
Your never going to get complete transparancy in a chaotic environment.
If no one reports civilian casualties or abuse you have next to no basis to investigate.
If there's a cover up at a senior level then you have a real problem and I will agree that we have seen that and it always disturbs me. But at the same time there are mechanisms in the chain of command for reporting these things, I go back to things like whistle blower hotlines for anonymous reporting that the U.S. military has put into effect.
If Wikileaks had started and stopped with some of the leaked documents about coverups I could be more sympathetic to what its trying to achieve.
However they basically vomited up every document that they could, including information that could compromise lives (sources). There was obviously no other reason to release these diplomatic cables then to embarress the United States.
Its the wrong forum for effecting change. All your going to do is increase secrecy, your not going to get actual change.