The Glorious Wikileaks

[riverwalker]

(found this fascinating article written by Egyptian blogger/activist Sandmonkey in NOVEMBER 2010. FOUR months ago! Since then the Wikileaks fired up Tunesia, which inspired Egypt. Wikileaks has changed the world in literal, real ways that is astonishing.)

http://www.sandmonkey.org/2010/11/29/the-glorious-wikileaks/

Rantings of a Sandmonkey

Monday 29 November 2010
The Glorious Wikileaks

Yesterday was bound to be another depressing day in Egyptian History: The election went as I expected, with massive fraud aimed towards an almost total NDP controlled Parliament, clashes, media blackouts and 9 dead, and no one in the international media or the US making a peep about it. The deal was sealed: Obama had sold out democracy promotion in exchange of regional stability, and having Egypt being its silent enforcer in the region against the Iranians. And then Wikileaks happened, and IT WAS GLORIOUS!

Just when the egyptian government thought it was done with the elections headache, Wikileaks comes along and fucks it up the ass. It was beautiful Karma in action. Thanks to Wikileaks I felt like a child who was allowed to listen to grown-up conversations for the first time. And if that wasn’t sweet enough, seeing every foreign policy assessment I have ever made become validated this way? Gratification, defined. <snip>

[WhiteTara]

1. thanks. That was refreshing.