Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few months, you have probably heard of WikiLeaks, a website that has somehow gained access to extremely classified government documents, and publishes them on the Internet. This guy with the shady sunglasses and dangerously smug expression is not a Bond villain but it's actually Julian Assange, the founder of this website.
Lately, he has come under fire over sexual assault charges, but he has also drawn the ire of many governments, particularly Uncle Sam after Assange's website published a series of government documents that revealed some controversial realities of the U.S.'s campaign in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Just these past couple of days, Assange has released a document that apparently now reveals that the American military command in Afghanistan has not thought "too fondly" of their British allies involved in the Helmand Province. American commanders apparently thought that the Brits made "a real mess of things." Apparently, Hamid Karzai (the uber corrupt and incompetent president of Afghanistan, and the saddest excuse for a "democratic" leader this side of Ronald Reagan's old buddy Augusto Pinochet) didn't think too highly of the British presence there either.
In circumstances like these, I think WikiLeaks is really causing problems. The last thing America needs is for them to lose another crucial ally. Thanks to the "people skills" of certain people during the previous administration, we burned bridges with everyone from Australia to Germany to South Korea. Britain is another one of those countries that is vital to the war effort in Afghanistan.
Honestly, I don't know what Assange is trying to accomplish by making these articles public. Most likely Assange is one of those anti-Bush liberals who still can't get over the fact that unfortunately America is mired in this f**king war over in some country that's been god forsaken since 1979. I acknowledge that WikiLeaks does us all a favor by revealing these secrets and making them known, but at the same time stuff like this should not be treated lightly. If Assange wants to vent about his anti-Bush, anti-war views, he needs to keep in mind that sowing the seeds of discord is only going to make things much worse. Losing the British in the war effort because of some stupid hissy fit in Afghanistan will only make the situation much more difficult. Not like this guy cares, he's probably banking and resting somewhere cozily while more American soldiers are putting their lives on the line for some bulls**t war that has done nothing except for getting rid of the Taliban, only for them to come back like the cockroaches they are.
However, let's not forget though that Assange's WikiLeaks also brought to our attention the needless and disturbing deaths of Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor Eldeen, two Reuters journalists who were killed by US soldiers in very reprehensible circumstances. His website informed us of something that the regular media often lacks the courage to do. In that sense, WikiLeaks and Assange have done us all a great favor, giving us valuable, straightforward, gritty information while CNN wastes our time about another story on Lindsay Lohan, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow goes on some stupid, narrow-minded rant on the "ignorance" of the American South, and Fox News just does their usual dumb gimmick of "fair and balanced" crap.
Perhaps even more important is WikiLeaks finally taking on China. While not necessarily confronting them (at this point, only God has the courage to really take on the Chinese powerhouse), Assange posted a secret American document that reveals something that many of us have suspected all along, that China no longer gives a damn about what happens to North Korea.
This is extremely valuable. Until that document, no one could really prove that China, arguably North Korea's only relevant ally in the international stage, no longer has too much, if any interest in maintaining those old bull***t communist ties that really died out when Deng Xiaoping took over in Beijing. China now realizes that Seoul is the only relevant Korea left and that the sooner the Kim regime in Pyongyang ends, the better it will be for China and Korea to build a relationship (that will involve many exchanges of money)
It's funny how at this point, the seemingly untouchable political regime of China now is scrambling and taking a half-assed stance in regards to another of North Korea's heinous and asinine acts that cost the lives of two South Korean soldiers and ruined the lives of many other civilians. And all this due to a document leaked by WikiLeaks that pretty much shows that China now regards North Korea as a "spoiled child."
Without China's full backing, North Korea is finished. We may have WikiLeaks to thank for that.
Cheers,
DC
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