France is defending the US. Why? Because unlike the liberal pollyannas, the French know the world is a messy place. Friends spy on each other, people say one thing in public and another in private, and sometime you gotta play dirty to get the bad guys.
Much good comes out of this massive leak
The double-dealing weasels of the world are revealed. Saudis and other nasty Gulf kingdom potentates want us to do their dirty work and bomb Iran. They still reserve the right to criticize us and Israel publicly, while privately cooperating with both countries.
China really is running a global computer hacking ring, as well as facilitating North Korea missile transfers to Iran. Afghan leaders have sticky fingers, pocketing hundreds of millions in foreign aid. The worst revelation about the US is that our foreign diplomats make candid assessments of government officials they interact with. The spying charge is BS. All diplomats do that.
Stop the leaks? Go to the source and kill it
Bradley Manning needs to be put before a firing squad or hung by the neck until dead. Traitors to this country deserve nothing more. The publishers of the leaks (New York Times, BBC, etc) are merely America-hating dung beetles, and we knew that already. The real culprits are those who betrayed our country's trust by leaking the documents.
Despite what the citizens of the world at the Federation of American Scientists say, divulging classified information under the guise of whistleblowing is a childish utopian fantasy and a nightmare for national sovereignty and security.
We have a divided government charged with challenging and investigating one another. That is how abuses are checked. If we are so corrupt that this no longer works, then the whole democratic experiment has failed. Pissants publishing secret information won't redeem it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11868838
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45644.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/06/AR2010070602330.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AS1VL20101129
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/28/how-us-embassy-cables-leaked
