Information warfare

WikiLeaks Publishes Afghan War Secrets

A number of readers submitted word on the massive WikiLeaks release of Afghanistan war documents. "The data is provided in CSV and SQL formats, sorted by months, and also was rendered into KML mapping data." WikiLeaks provided the documents in advance to the New York Times, Der Spiegel, and the UK's Guardian — the latter also has up a video tutorial on how to read the logs. From the Times: "A six-year archive of classified military documents... offers an unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the official portrayal. The secret documents... are a daily diary of an American-led force often starved for resources and attention as it struggled against an insurgency that grew larger, better coordinated and more deadly each year. The New York Times, the British newspaper The Guardian, and the German magazine Der Spiegel were given access to the voluminous records several weeks ago on the condition that they not report on the material before Sunday. The documents — some 92,000 reports spanning parts of two administrations from January 2004 through December 2009 — illustrate in mosaic detail why, after the United States has spent almost $300 billion on the war in Afghanistan, the Taliban are stronger than at any time since 2001."

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Wikileaks is playing in to our enemy's hands. By releasing this information, they have at best created a rift between the intelligence and enforcement parts of the military. I do not see the good side of this. Who has skin in the game?

Obama is looking for an excuse to pull the plug on all the wars. He has plans for all that money that do not include defending the freedoms of Americans.

The folks who run Wikileaks don't get much more than recognition as activists. They may have unplugged the one little leak in the damn that brings down a nation. The most powerful nation. I suppose that is a feather in the cap of someone who is out to bring western civilization down.

The train wreck who most likely gave the data to Wikileaks is going to be a hero to the socialists one day. I foresee a statue in his honer that says he made all the big government controls possible. Not sure he will make it to that day.

Every liberal in Europe just plane loves to see it get stuck to America. I hate to inform Obama, but they hate us almost as much as they hate the Jews and Israel. There is not much in it for Europeans. They don't realize their necks are on the same block as ours. Divide and concur.

As much as I would love to blame insurgence in Afghanistan or Iraq or wherever, I can't really. Some of the people fighting us do it out of religious need. Some do it to fulfill being a man. Some do it to get away from their family. Some do it for pure adventure. Some do it for the money. I bet chicks dig insurgents. No, I can't blame the individuals. I can blame their society.

I would much rather blame their society than ours. This is what makes me a racist. or a Nazi or a Fascist. Nazis and Fascists were left politically. I am right. I am none of those things. I have simply chosen a side. this doesn't make me any better or worse. My side used to believe in freedom of thought and the freedom to speak. That is all but gone now. I am ashamed for not making more of a stink over it going.

Did I ever have the will to win?