Weeks to assess?

As we learned (again) during the Vietnam War, light is the best disinfectant.

The military-intelligence complex hopes Americans of a patriotic stripe will swallow the notion that the new Wikileaks "revelations" about Afghanistan are treachery. Even though it's mostly old news, as commentators rushed to acknowledge. Government says that it will take "weeks to assess" the impact. Oh, geez. News organizations were able to do the same assessment overnight: there is no news here.

Truth will often look/smell/feel like treachery to the well entrenched. Personally, as a self-appointed member of the design committee, I vote that future U.S. currency bear the likenesses of major league leakers like "Deep Throat" (farewell, Nixon) and Daniel Ellsberg, whose courage against all odds (you want to take on the federal government?) saved America from years of murderous, do-it-again entrenchment when he exposed the Pentagon Papers.

With those mugs in our wallet, we'd be constantly reminded that any adventure where the U.S. does not have a real solution (Afghanistan) costs this country plenty.

America is NOT about the military (much as I love it). America IS about opportunity. And we're starving the opportunity side right now to feed the military side.