I have yet to make up my mind about this leak but I tend to agree with the author in the last link. While Assange appears much concerned about stopping this war he has said little or nothing about what will happen if he succeeds. The man suffers from “tunnel vision” and sees only one side of a very complex situation.
I’m thinking about all the children in that country now attending school who will eventually inherit and change in profound ways a very backwards seventh century nation. That will take a lot of time — some thirty years I guessed long ago.
If we give up and leave, those children in many cases will die horrible deaths, the schools will close and Afghanistan will revert to what it once was (and still is). A mind boggling country built on hate for all the west stands for and the contacts (Iran) to do great harm. They will come again just as they did on 911.
Therefore I feel that Assange should be arrested and prosecuted, not because he is trying to stop a war he has no grasp of. Rather, because he has betrayed an entire country — Afghanistan. Worse he has attempted to betray the future which is within their reach with persistence from the west which may dissipate in the days ahead thanks to his misguided efforts.
I hope not because we have spent far to much blood and lucre to give up now simply because a “net twit” has released information which is an attempt to destroy our will to succeed.
For now (and I’ve said this many times) Iran must have it’s war making ability destroyed because this country is the one that is causing all the trouble for everyone everywhere. When Iran can no longer make war the trouble will stop and that is the bottom line.
THEN WE WILL SUCCEED!
I feel it’s time to end this long lasting war and we do that by ending Iran’s hold over the region. We give them the same treatment we gave Iraq and in their case (because they are very slow learners) we don’t go back and pick them up.
We destroy everything their government relies on for money (oil), their thugs and their armies, their “nukes” — and then color us gone. In about a year’s time we can truly start to bring our troops home and it won’t really matter to us how they make out.
They will no longer be a threat to the region and their people will take control. That would be a good thing and perhaps then, when they have, we can rethink the situation.
But not now.
In time.
Neda may yet become the mother of her new country, her grave a place of worship. A country yanked from the hands of despots and I remember her just as do all Iranians.
First we have to get rid of the thugs and I truly mean that. Neda’s friends need help just as Iraq and Afghanistan did and we should render it without reservation.