Le Café Politique De Camus De Café: Jim Moran: We Can’t Win and WikiLeaks: We Have The Right To Know!

Jim Moran: We Can’t Win and WikiLeaks: We Have The Right To Know!

The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie.... Hence in a world where leaking is easy, secretive or unjust systems are nonlinearly hit relative to open, just systems. Since unjust systems by their nature induce opponents, and in many places barely have the upper hand, mass leaking leaves them exquisitely vulnerable to those who seek to replace them with more open forms of governance. Only revealed injustice can be answered; for man to do anything intelligent he has to know what's actually going on."

Democrat Jim Moran Says US Military Cannot Win The War In Afghanistan

Marc Schenker: Vancouver American Politics Examiner

(Ed.”s Note: Moran: My Congressman and glad of it)

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Democrat Jim Moran says US military cannot win the war in Afghanistan. Remember when G.W. Bush was president, and it seemed like every other Democrat would declare that the US can’t win the war…whether that was in Iraq or Afghanistan? Well, now that Barack Obama is president, the Democrats are still as anti-war and anti-military as ever, the only difference being that the mainstream media doesn’t report on their statements of comfort and aid to the enemy nearly as much as when Bush was president. On Friday’s "Hardball," Moran, who’s a congressman from Virginia, declared that Afghanistan was not a "winnable war," and he even went so far as to claim that military leaders agreed with him!

This anti-military Moran rounded out the week by essentially defaming the US military for not being able to win against a bunch of ragtag Islamofascists who fight out of caves…with their goats! I know that I’m talking about the lowest of the low with "Hardball" and the insanely ideological MSNBC, but still…

Moran’s comments that I opine border on treasonous—because they give comfort and enemy to any Islamist terrorist who hears them—are nothing new for prominent members of the disgraceful Democrat Party.

In the "Hardball" interview, Moran alleged that there is no military solution because of the massive and widespread corruption in the Afghan government. While he’s technically right about the massive corruption in Hamid Karzai’s government (read: thugs), his comments damning the US military as incapable of militarily defeating Taliban terrorists are factually wrong and totally over the line. If there’s a reason it only seems like the US military is not winning in Afghanistan, it’s because of Obama’s new policy of being extra careful around the villagers and restricting the combat ability of the military. If the US military was allowed by Obama to really fight the war without any kid gloves, they would easily have Afghanistan pacified.

If Moran’s point was that the Afghan government was corrupt, then he should have left it at that, because it is true. However, Moran strayed into the land of anti-war and anti-military ideology by accusing the military of not being able to win in Afghanistan, which should be condemned by every patriotic American. The worst thing about Moran’s agenda is that he’s making these revolting comments to help push public pressure into demanding a withdrawal from Afghanistan—it’s what all liberals want. And then, he’ll probably demand that the "savings" from pulling out of Afghanistan be used in any manner of idiotic liberal social programs…like extending unemployment benefits for all eternity, programs to make gays feel "better" about themselves, or federal funding for any mosque that wants it at Ground Zero.

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The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie.... Hence in a world where leaking is easy, secretive or unjust systems are nonlinearly hit relative to open, just systems. Since unjust systems by their nature induce opponents, and in many places barely have the upper hand, mass leaking leaves them exquisitely vulnerable to those who seek to replace them with more open forms of governance. Only revealed injustice can be answered; for man to do anything intelligent he has to know what's actually going on."

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Much Has Been Made Of Wikileaks As Reaction To The Craven Complicity Of The Mass Media To The State.

This is undoubtedly true, but again misses the point. Noam Chomsky pointed out long ago that the media, privately run and owned by corporate executives, has always been a gatekeeper and a fundamental part of industrial society. Reporters do not only desire access to the state, preventing them from consistently acting as a check on the oligarchs; the media is a pillar of the modern state. It has as much interest in the state’s survival (profits, elite status itself) as Wall Street or Barack Obama. When its paid employees attack the recklessness of Wikileaks, they are attacking their own ability to carefully manage and shape information for the public’s consumption. Wikileaks does no editing, save for redacting some names; it presents information to the public for its own analysis, understanding, and enlightenment. Wikileaks does not rely upon legions of trained reporters, but rather other citizens for its information. The release of the documents from Iraq was done by a courageous soldier who had come to understand the extent of the American state’s imperialism and crimes, and wished, for the benefit of other citizens and without monetary remuneration but rather prison in the offing, to expose the plutocrats who had conducted the war.

Wikileaks was, thus, always a latent possibility with the advent of the Internet and direct mass information exchange worldwide. Like any other anti-systemic movement, it only took a group of committed people to organize and exploit that possibility. It is, then, up to those committed to radical democracy and egalitarian social change to extend the gains made by Wikileaks by proliferating its example and encouraging the growth of transparency via document dumps at all levels. A world where all levels of government and the economy would have to be wary of exposure is one where the rank-and-file would no longer be met with opaque silence about the inner-workings of government, but could begin to take the oligarchs and plutocrats to task, the first step in a truly democratic worldwide revolution. Bureaucracy’s wall of mystique will be shattered, and the demos will wrest control away from the officials and the elected representatives who rely on secrecy to cut deals, divide the population, and keep the masses dis-empowered.

It is not often that the wheels of history give us the potential to swing the pendulum toward democratic rule and a curtailment of elite power. We have such a chance now, and it is up to us to take advantage of it. Let a thousand Wikileaks bloom – let us build the democracy of tomorrow, today.

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