Lets just take a second and actually take a look at part of what the leaks say. And no, I don't care about the Canada bit. No one does.
The bit about Iran is arguably the most important part of this leak, followed by the document stating China would be accepting of a reunified Korea under the South Korean government. These are documents that speaks about other Arabic nations urging the US to engage Iran more aggressively while trying to placate Iran themselves. These are also documents coming from the Pentagon stating war with Iran would do more harm than good. The result is essentially the embarrassment of some of the Arabic nations for sending two opposite messages to two different places as well as giving room for Iran to claim this is all just American propaganda and that it's still just Israel and the US that wants to keep Iran down. This leak's immediate result has been further tension in the Middle East and we can only hope it stops at that. (Though it is kind of funny how this pretty much sends a giant middle finger to anyone that does think any aggression Middle East is just some Jewish cabal seizing control of Washington.)
I know that people really like it when documents that expose government secrets come out because everyone wants to know exactly what their government is dong, but what's in this leak is not the same as previous ones. This doesn't expose some egregious crime committed by the government that's gonna get everyone in an uproar. The biggest impact its had so far in fact is making the US government question its Post 9/11 implemented policy of various government branches sharing intelligence documents with each other (the reason why State Department intelligence files were available to someone in the Pentagon), and that would kind of suck for people that want more transparency.
Wikileaks isn't some group that seems to be leaking files for the betterment of world. If this leaks sends any message, its that they have no central vision or purpose to what they want to do with the information they get their hands on at all. And that makes them pretty dangerous.
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