US Needs Lesson In 'Secret-Keeping' -- Robert Grenier, Al Jazeera
The WikiLeaks website supposedly carrying some 91,000 US military reports from Afghanistan makes for oddly mesmerising reading.
Having only dedicated a few hours to the task, I can hardly claim even a cursory appreciation for what is there and what it represents. Like most of us, I am forced to rely to a large degree for now on the analyses provided by those media outlets which have had weeks to study and begin to digest the mass of documents.
To this reader, however, there are a few initial impressions that emerge from a quick perusal.
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My Comment: We live in the digital age, in which huge amounts of information can be transferred in minutes from one part of the world to another. The surprise of the Wikileaks story is not that it happened .... the surprise is that it took this long for it to happen.
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