{"id":575,"date":"2010-12-06T16:16:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T23:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=575"},"modified":"2010-12-06T16:16:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T23:16:59","slug":"sticks-and-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"STICKS AND STONES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me.\u201d\u00a0 Unfortunately, as adults, we all know that words can actually do a lot of harm.\u00a0 In many cases, a broken bone would be a lot easier to repair.<\/p>\n<p>If it wasn\u2019t so devastating for our national security, the WikiLeaks fiasco would be truly hysterical.\u00a0 The Obama administration is absolutely helpless to shut up a second rate computer geek.\u00a0 \u00a0In addition to all the damage already done by the release of top secret documents, apparently there is more, much more.\u00a0 Assange has sent out an encoded insurance doc to be opened in the event something happens to him.\u00a0 He apparently believes that the information in this special document is so damaging to the Obama administration and other countries that he is impervious to attack.\u00a0 Some people have speculated that these documents may refer to Guantanamo Bay, the BP oil spill, or Bank of America.\u00a0 The only thing we know for sure is that the Obama administration has been cowed into submission just by the threat of their release.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, Mr. Assange is probably going to learn the error of his ways.\u00a0 While the Obama administration may be impotent with regard to dealing with this, he has also made some serious enemies who are a lot more capable than the Obama administration.\u00a0 In particular, Russia does not tend to suffer fools for any significant length of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This should also be a sharp reminder of what is at stake in North Korea and Iran.\u00a0 North Korea already has a nuclear weapon.\u00a0 South Korea has threatened to launch air strikes against North Korea if there are any more attacks on South Korea.\u00a0 But the problem is that if there is a miscalculation, the result could be a nuclear war.\u00a0 How much risk of setting of a nuclear holocaust is South Korea willing to take?<\/p>\n<p>If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, at a minimum they will use it as a tool of extortion.\u00a0 At what point do their demands become so unacceptable that one is willing to risk nuclear war to stop them?<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration is terrified by the threat of releasing these documents.\u00a0 They have clearly allowed great damage to our national security in response to a blatant act of extortion.\u00a0 When one sees how impotent we are in the face of WikiLeaks, it is hard to have much confidence in our ability to handle a real threat, like nuclear war.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition, has anyone noticed that there has been very little damaging information released with regard to the Bush administration?\u00a0 Either the Bush administration was a lot more capable of covering things up, or the Obama administration has just provided a lot more raw material.\u00a0 \u00a0I am sure progressives were hoping that WikiLeaks would provide a smoking gun proving that George Bush lied about Iraq and WMD to gin up support for an unnecessary war.\u00a0 Instead most of the documents released so far show that the Bush administration was saying the same thing in private that they were saying in public.\u00a0 It is the Obama administration that has been caught lying about nearly everything.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton recently announced that Secretary of State is her last public office.\u00a0 Perhaps she knows what is on those tapes.<\/p>\n<p>TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me.\u201d\u00a0 Unfortunately, as adults, we all know that words can actually do a lot of harm.\u00a0 In many cases, a broken bone would be a lot easier to &hellip; 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