WikiFlood – the end of US foreign policy as we know it (possibly a bad thing)

The US Diplomatic Leaks: A Superpower’s View of the World – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International

Surprises from the annals of US diplomacy will dominate the headlines in the coming days when the New York Times, London’s Guardian, Paris’ Le Monde, Madrid’s El Pais and SPIEGEL begin shedding light on the treasure trove of secret documents from the State Department. Included are 243,270 diplomatic cables filed by US embassies to the State Department and 8,017 directives that the State Department sent to its diplomatic outposts around the world. In the coming days, the participating media will show in a series of investigative stories how America seeks to steer the world. The development is no less than a political meltdown for American foreign policy.

Never before in history has a superpower lost control of such vast amounts of such sensitive information — data that can help paint a picture of the foundation upon which US foreign policy is built. Never before has the trust America’s partners have in the country been as badly shaken. Now, their own personal views and policy recommendations have been made public — as have America’s true views of them.

 

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  1. @ miguel cervantes: really? I would have pegged you as being right at home in the Cuban Quarter of Byzantium.

    (sorry. I should have explained that in the USA we call football “soccer” and play an odd form of rugby, but I figured that people who really love America would know that, you Tbag boy, you.)

  2. Van Diepen, he was the one that assured us, ‘honest engine’ that Iran had no nuclear program, so was he lying then or now, (rhetorical question I know)

  3. miguel cervantes wrote:

    Van Diepen, he was the one that assured us, ‘honest engine’ that Iran had no nuclear program, so was he lying then or now, (rhetorical question I know)

    I strongly suspect you’re embroidering. Which is a nice way of putting it.

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