Hillary Clinton and the U.S. government in general should concern themselves more with what WikiLeaks reveals instead of huffing and puffing that they were so easily accessed and leaked at all. The ‘stolen cables’ highlights the poor performance of every top ranking diplomat and political figure associated with the fiascoes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
These leaks serve only to underscore truths that the educated American public already know. That the half brother of Afghanistan’s President, Ahmed Wali Karzai, truly is as corrupt as past reports have stated, and his corruption and drug trafficking is being financed by the millions of dollars we taxpayers are throwing at him. With these ‘revelations’ can we truly expect to reach any kind of ‘success’ in Afghanistan? And just what is this so called successful goal we are trying to achieve? At this point, putting an end to the endless outflow of money to this untamable country will be a huge success. The American public should be outraged at being forced to support such a corrupt regime while we are also forced to financially support efforts to curtail drug trafficking across the Mexican border.
The American public has already figured out that al Qaida was not an issue, nor were they America’s enemies, until after we illegally invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq under George W Bush’s orders. The U.S. government’s overthrow of Saddam Hussein directly allowed the growth of Iran’s influence in that area. If any politician or military leader claims ignorance of the possibility of such a serendipitous side effect they should be fired from their position immediately. How could the supposed greatest military and political minds that America has to offer not have seen the possibility of such a shift in power? We should be outraged over our leaders unexplained short-sightedness.
We already knew that the largest financial backers of the 9/11 attack were from Saudi Arabia and we should be outraged by our governments continued feigned ignorance of Saudi Arabia’s part in financing terrorist activities against the U.S. We Americans should be outraged that we are blatantly lied to and manipulated as if we are not intelligent enough to see what is going on.
Our governments claim that these leaks will bring harm to our troops is nothing more than an attempt to direct our attention away from the politically embarrassing truths that the leaks have revealed.
Instead of ‘shooting the messenger’ over revealing stuff we already know, Hillary Clinton and other top ranking politicians would do well to correct what it is that make these leaks embarrassing.
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