WikiLeaks' Word War

IBD Editorials ^ | July 27, 2010 | Investors Business Daily staff

[Kaslin]

National Security: The 9/11 attacks were famously blamed on the Free World's failure of imagination. The WikiLeaks attack has found the West, once again, unprepared for a new kind of threat.

In the wake al-Qaida's 9/11 atrocities, New York Times columnist William Safire asked, "Why, with $30 billion a year spent on intelligence, couldn't our FBI, CIA and NSA prevent this well-coordinated, two-city attack?"

The 9/11 Commission's report answered that: "The most important failure was one of imagination. We do not believe leaders understood the gravity of the threat."

The Commission noted that "National security used to be considered by studying foreign frontiers, weighing opposing groups of states, and measuring industrial might. To be dangerous, an enemy had to muster large armies. Threats emerged slowly, often visibly, as weapons were forged, armies conscripted, and units trained and moved into place."

By the 21st century, that changed.

"Now threats can emerge quickly," the report said. "An organization like al-Qaida, headquartered in a country on the other side of the Earth, in a region so poor that electricity or telephones were scarce, could nonetheless scheme to wield weapons of unprecedented destructive power in the largest cities of the United States."

Something similar can be said of WikiLeaks. It's located in a country ambivalent about American foreign policy (Sweden), and wields weapons of unprecedented destructive power.

[Da Coyote]

I can’t wait to see the lib reaction to “leaks” on Obama’s hidden (and therefore suspect) records during his dopy college years.

Betcha they won’t be so sympathetic to leaks then.

Especially when those records reveal what we conservatives know: this guy couldn’t pass a community college lit class if he were white. (Sorry race baiters, I’ve got plenty of African American heroes - Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, and many more. They just happen to be intelligent and I’d be proud to be listed as one of their friends.)

[Tzimisce]

You can’t win a war playing by the rules.

The enemy will just use it against you.

And that’s what they’re going to do now.

Somewhere in the filthy caves of Pakistan, al Queda is laughing their asses off.

[fhayek]

Andrew Breitbart - bad. WikiLeaks - good.
Expose Valarie Plame - bad. Expose intelligence operations in Afghanistan/Pakistan good.
Expose President Obama and Vice President Bite-me for half-assing a war - Bad. Compromise our young men and women putting it all on the line for freedom good.

I've asked this question several times before, but could someone show me how to get back to the other side of the looking glass?