There is a famous legend about the little Dutch boy who saves his town from flooding by plugging a leak in a dike with his finger. Fortunately for him (and the town), there was only one leak because, well, a boy has only so many fingers. But multiple leaks of information keep on coming out […]
WikiLeaks: one week down, ???? to go
Posted December 10th, 2010 at 8:15 pm (UTC+0)
There is little doubt the WikiLeaks cables have been a headache for U.S. officials in general, and diplomats in particular. To have private and very candid assessments of foreign leaders and reports on their activities aired in public is embarrassing. It’s like knowing someone is talking about you behind your back, and then finding out […]
Documents Show U.S. Coalition Building on Iran
Posted December 3rd, 2010 at 6:28 pm (UTC+0)
There is little question that the latest batch of WikiLeaks documents, mainly from the State Department, make for fascinating reading. Examples abound: Over the past nine years, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has seemingly morphed from being a rather happy fellow to a mercurial and paranoid one. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev “plays Robin to (Vladimir) Putin’s […]
