The daily deluge of diplomatic cables from the Wikileaks plunder, of which the New York Times is shamelessly and despicably availing itself, is heartbreaking and infuriating.\u00a0 The good faith efforts on the part of our government representatives to honestly assess the complicated world in which we live are now pointlessly undermined.
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\nBut now that the damage has been done, I would love to see Dinesh D\u2019Souza and all the other right-wing hysterics who are hawking the idea of Obama\u2019s scary Otherness explain how these diplomatic cables contribute in any way to their thesis.\u00a0 I would love to see them nominate their favorite dispatches that demonstrate Obama\u2019s efforts to undermine American power and to elevate socialism, Third World radicalism, and anti-colonialism over traditional American interests.\u00a0 To the contrary, the cables demonstrate a continuity of American foreign policy and discourse from the Bush to the Obama administrations.\u00a0 The Obama-era dispatches show the same assumptions about the need to maintain American supremacy as have been harbored by every previous administration.\u00a0 And I doubt whether Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld would have deplored the idea of gathering biometric or other identity information on fellow diplomats.\u00a0\u00a0 If Obama and Holder wanted to destroy American influence, they should be cheering Assange on, not looking for ways to prosecute him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The daily deluge of diplomatic cables from the Wikileaks plunder, of which the New York Times is shamelessly and despicably availing itself, is heartbreaking and infuriating.\u00a0 The good faith efforts on the part of our government representatives to honestly assess … Continue reading