FYI, my position, so to speak, predates the very concept of neo-con by some 40 years. That said, I understand Im coming off in sympathy with that crew. Im not; there were ways those goals could have been achieved (proposed by my tribe before they were rotated out of influence to make way for adventurists) that would have been considerably more elegant and effective.
Point being; Manning wasnt protesting the idiocy of the neo-cons when he released those documents. He was protesting the nature of global diplomacy and security. He had a personality defect and went sideways and queered the proverbial deal slightly.
Note the deafening lack of recriminations from our allies and enemies alike after the documents dropped. No one was shocked or alarmed, they just pretended it was a bad smell and it was up to all of them to ignore it until it went away.
Thats because literally every government on earth does that shit.
You think our allies in the war *actually thought Saddam was involved in 9/11*?
Of course not, no one cared. The balance had swayed towards the huns, civilized nations needed to crack the whip and right it.
In the good old days, we would have deposed Saddam and placed a nice cozy puppet regime in place. The neo-con influence was abandoning that paradigm for this hilarious 'coalition'.
Tl;dr: dont hate the player, hate the game.
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