Reply #7: The Jury's Still Out

[AnnieBW]

Granted, leaking Valerie Plame's association with the CIA caused irreparable damage to counter-proliferation efforts against Iran, North Korea, etc. People probably died in Iran and North Korea because of that. However, with the WikiLeaks stuff just hitting the media now, it will take several weeks or months before the repercussions are felt by our people in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Every horrible thing that is revealed is going to galvanize more people against the U.S. No matter how much we try to "win hearts and minds," the people over there aren't going to remember the schools that we built, or the medical care, or all of the money we've pumped into their countries. THey're going to remember Abu Gharaib, Bagram, Fallujah, and lots of dead civilians.