There are limits to everything...
So what do you think about the daily WikiLeaks cables?
World-leaders claim that the release of this documents is a threat to global stability. If global stability is based on deception and lies, maybe the good thing will be that the international community wakes up now.
It's hard to think of everything, except of the pink elephant in the room.
Dear rrhill,
With all of the turmoil in the world already, I think it is foolish to think that every private communication should be made public. The last thing we need is simplistic thinking on complex topics concerning highly complex world matters. If we are to encourage active exchanges of ideas between world leaders and other diplomats, then it does not seem to big of a stretch to realize that some ideas are merely "brainstorming" or "initial offers beginning actual long-term negotiations" and not really meant as "final policies" fully developed and with full-approval from all the parties involved. Diplomacy is largely done with the understanding that ideas, until fully developed and approved, should not become material with the media only to further sensationalize a mere suggestion. If you want utter chaos in the world, then further irresponsible leaks can be the trigger.
You only have to look at the ridiculous campaign here in the US to provide universal health care. It was a free-for-all with all sorts of exaggerated ideas being floated around that no one involved in the negotiations truly felt they had a "
snowball's chance in hell" to get approval. Yet, we were bombarded with these false ideas as if they were actual policy. The side most against providing universal health care, the Republicans along with the Health Insurance Companies, were in an orchestrated attempt to provide alot of "disinformation" as a weapon for defeating the passage of universal health care. The results speak for themselves. We have an extremely watered-down universal health plan no where near where it needs to be to be truly effective for the largest number of Americans. No one in America is happy with it either. The media loved all the skirmishes and sensationalized it to the max all at the expense of a proper health care plan.
We had a war in our history The "Spanish-American War" of 1898 over Cuba which was a media free-for-all and largely created due to "yellow journalism" which over sensationalized the war and helped to get the war going. WWI began with the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand and again was over-sensationalized by the media and further fueled with a tradition of "ethnic hatred" existing for centuries. All of this then lead to WW1.
In a pure democracy, definitely you want transparency and free flowing ideas, but there does not exist a "true pure democracy" in the world because this would be too volatile a situation and could lead to collapse and greater chances for anarchy instead. These government documents in question were never intended for public viewing for a reason.
With irrational leaders in North Korea and Iran, to name just a few, we certainly don't want to create more world-wide instability in fragile countries or regions where possible illegal nuclear weapons may exist or anywhere else where terrorist already exist or could be about to begin another terrorist campaign creating another hotspot in the world.
Finally, this so called work by Wikileaks has done a big disservice to the entire world in that it makes national leaders more resistant to communicate and attempt to negotiate with their enemies. This is the last thing the world needs.
Sincerely,
Cumrag27, aka Stimpy
