[Eric]

I read comment on the leaks ... and some of the leaks themselves .... what surprises me is that folks are, well, surprised at the contents and the directions of US foreign policy. Catching the general drift, I don't see much that the great American public would not agree with. The irony, the paradox, I'm pondering (that's what lots of people do while drinking their first cup of mud, and catching up on the news) is that countries which claim to be free societies (I say "claim", not "are") are ones which keep their people uninformed, and generally in the dark about what they are doing in foreign and domestic policy. I do believe that what WikiLeaks promotes the health of democracy. Unfortunately, the great democracies will respond in the wrong way, circling the wagons, so to speak.