I have greatly enjoyed the revalations from Wikileaks and look forward to more. It is very instructive to see that our representatives were telling us one thing and telling the American government something quite different. You might say' no big surprize. I knew all along that they re devious bastards' but there is a world of difference between suspecting something and KNOWING it. An example from my line of work. The UK government announced that it wanted to create the largest marine sanctuary in the world, around the Chagos islands in the Indian ocean. This is the site of the Diego Garcia base and building it involved expelling all the Cahgos islands from their homeland. Among environmentalists there were two schools of thought:
1. A big marine sanctuary is a good thing and we should support it.
2. It was intended to make it impossible for the Chagoseans to ever return.
We dismissed 2 as overly paranoid and went with 1. We now know, thanks to Wikileaks, that the entire purpose of the sanctuary was to block return of the Chagoseans and it was intended to use the the environmental lobby against them.
We won't get fooled again!
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