Greg Mitchell: For The Naysayers Who Claim Wiki Cables Mean Little...

[Hissyspit]

http://www.thenation.com/blog/157411/wikileaks-news-views-blog-special-new-years-weekend-editiion

11:55  For the naysayers who claim Wiki cables mean little: Janet Napolitano just announced a tripling of agents in Afghanistan - to try to halt massive smuggling of cash out of the country revealed in the cables. Billions of dollars have exited...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/world/asia/02afghanistan.html?

[Angry Dragon]

1. What is Homeland Security doing in Afghanistan??

Are they making it the 51st state??

[onethatcares]

5. it may as well be

we'd just have to find prick scotts long lost brother to be its governor.

[dflprincess]

2. Operative word being "try" (like they didn't know this was going on before)

Though, this would indicate that the leaks have may have been a good thing for American taxpayers and the arguments made by some posters in this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x581983

that Bradley Manning has harmed the United States are incorrect. Assuming, of course, that what's good for the citizens is good the country.

[valerief]

3. And they had no idea? I think they were facilitating it. nt

[snot]

4. The point is, THEY knew, but until Wikileaks, WE didn't--so now they have to do something about it.

[seabeyond]

7. we did know. we know that is how they stopped the problems in iraq about

2005. not the increase in troops. the paying off. we have always known. has nothing to do with wiki, but so easy to hand them the credit without any supporting data

[xchrom]

6. recommend

[jeff47]

8. If we're going to give Wikileaks credit for this,

Should we also give Wikileaks credit for crippling democratic reforms in Zimbabwe?
(http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/12/how-wikileaks-just-set-back-democracy-in-zimbabwe/68598)

Or does Wikileaks only get credit for "good" changes?

[LostInAnomie]

9. +1