One thing I thought was interesting about this whole Wikileaks thing is that he went after the US which I guess is a pretty soft target. We condemn in the strongest possible terms and send strongly worded letters but we are basically powerless to fight back against Assange. He even gets a chance to lob pronouncements from undisclosed locations and the world media eats his stuff up.
However, if these were Iranian or Red Chinese diplomatic cables he would be in a whole new world of hurt. I can see Revolutionary Guard agents or Red Chinese Intelligence teams scouring the earth the get even with him for tipping their hand. I'm pretty sure that Sweden's sovereignty will be violated in the process. Instead our diplomatic corps is terrorized by this guy and we just paw the ground and look sheepish.
I guess this is the difference between being liked and being feared in the world. Obama wants America to be liked and we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard that no other country does. Now we have our relations with the rest of the world damaged because of that higher standard.
I have read about what we should do about Assange. Well we can't assassinate him which would be what almost any other nation would do. Russia would give him the Polonium-210 treatment in a minute if for example he released 10,000s of Chechen war documents. I guess we just have to trust Swedish Authorities to catch him and then we beg them to extradite him to the US. In the meantime we need to punish the leaker Pvt. Manning with a full charge or treason with the potential for the death penalty. Hopefully, that will make these people think twice before they attempt to damage America from the inside.
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