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Originally Posted by Slims
I still fail to see how these documents change anything....They seem to me old-news and obvious.
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They might change something, who knows what Obama is going to do about it but it looks like not much. I agree, the content of the documents are almost irrelevant. Its garden variety anti-war propaganda (which is fine, it is what it is and this is a democracy), and the contents are relevant to that extent and no further because any secrets that were revealed will be adjusted for in the field by the commanders on the ground. The sole purpose of the whole thing was as an expression of dissent towards the war and dissatisfaction with Obama for perpetuating and deepening what Bush started in A-stan. If you listen to what Hilary Clinton has been saying lately about the region, one might mistake her for a neo-con, or at least what the netroots labelled a neo-con a few years back. Every other word out of her mouth is "containing terrorism", "denying safe havens to terrorists", "keeping the taliban from obtaining nuclear weapons" etc etc etc. So this is the second american administration in a row that has taken the stance (along with nato) that the area is a potential powderkeg waiting to explode...its either got to be one or the other, true or false, real and present danger ... or no danger at all. Theres got to be a reason otherwise extraordinarily intelligent people are concerned about the region and it cant be blamed entirely on oil this time around.