No Shit, Sherlock
What's striking is the enormous lack of impact the recent Wikileaks release of diplomatic documents has had. I haven't been reading carefully up on every single revelation -- a platoon of NYT reporters are combing through the docs to reveal their contents -- so there may be info that will prove cataclysmic in future. Right now, not feeling it.
So I am edging to the conclusion that Julian Assange is a douche bag, supported by douche bags, whose hacking skills have blinded them to the idea that the 250,000 docs they leaked are of little interest to anybody except the people whose lives are endangered and to wonks like me, who love to know what is basically anodyne gossip about back channel economy transactions between the Ukraine and Somalia intercepted by Somali pirates who ratted out the illegal trade in Soviet era tanks to the proper authorities, who denied, indeed, were shocked, shocked, that such douche bag nations should be trading douche bag goods. In other words, a Pink Panther plot. What Assange has exposed -- aside, allegedly, from his dubiously manly parts -- is that clandestine activity runs the world and will continue to do so whether or not he continues allegedly to rape Scandanavian chicks.
So I am edging to the conclusion that Julian Assange is a douche bag, supported by douche bags, whose hacking skills have blinded them to the idea that the 250,000 docs they leaked are of little interest to anybody except the people whose lives are endangered and to wonks like me, who love to know what is basically anodyne gossip about back channel economy transactions between the Ukraine and Somalia intercepted by Somali pirates who ratted out the illegal trade in Soviet era tanks to the proper authorities, who denied, indeed, were shocked, shocked, that such douche bag nations should be trading douche bag goods. In other words, a Pink Panther plot. What Assange has exposed -- aside, allegedly, from his dubiously manly parts -- is that clandestine activity runs the world and will continue to do so whether or not he continues allegedly to rape Scandanavian chicks.