About Wikileaks...
By ra1787
@ra1787 (501)
Italy
November 28, 2010 5:57pm CST
I've been reading wikileaks leaked cablograms for the last half hour and i was wondering what people here on mylot think about the leak about this massive leakage of diplomatic documents.
In my opinion, given the nature of the first leaked documents available, it seems nothing that any country with a decent intelligence agency doesn't already know.
So i really don't think that any serious consequences will be between the relationships between countries.
The real point here is that now that everything is in public domain it will be much harder for governments to justify their stance on certain issues to their citizens.
Governments can no longer pretend to ignore certain things that they have willingly chosen to ignore for many years. It will certainly lead to less hypocritical behavious in international relations, but who knows if that is really a good thing..
What do you thing?
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2 responses
@laglen (19759)
• United States
29 Nov 10
From what I have seen so far, all we will learn is the stupid little games that our governments are playing. It will hurt feelings and some of the leaders mentioned get really testy. I see knee jerk reactions, politicians getting defensive, and little boys getting offended. I think this will show the true colors of politics and diplomacy.
@ra1787 (501)
• Italy
29 Nov 10
I agree with you, even if no substantial revelation has emerged in those documents, there has surely been some unwise name calling of international leaders. I am quite sure that all those leaders already know how they were judged by the us, but a thing is knowing how they call you and another thing is the whole world knowing how you are being called.
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@lilwonders456 (8214)
• United States
29 Nov 10
Well our government sure wlll have a difficult time of justifying some of the name calling that was going on about the other world leaders. some of which was childish and unprofessional. Looks like immaturity is abound in our govrnment....not just in congress.
