Yawning at WikiLeaks CableGate Whatever They're Calling It

Two cents: The latest WikiLeaks docudump is not a big deal and does not reveal anything terribly surprising about U.S. diplomacy, either in the specific or in broad terms. Seriously: Is anyone at all surprised that our government's actual views of foreign leaders are not as perfectly reverent as its public statements about them? Would anyone be surprised to learn that other countries don't praise President Obama to the heavens in their internal communiques? Are we shocked — shocked — to learn that Israel and the Saudis share a common interest in (though not a common reason for) annihilating the Iranian nuclear arms industry? Of course not. I'm not. Matt Steinglass is not. Even Judith Miller (she of Scooter Libby/aspens fame) is not. But we're generally sensible people. We're not, say, the incoming chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee...

Or, say, Jonah Goldberg, who famously wondered why the CIA has not yet assassinated WikiLeaks' chief swami, Julian Assange. (So did one of our own, sorta.)

The reason is quite simple, really: Because Julian Assange is not a threat, and nobody with an ounce of brains thinks that he is. Hysteria over WikiLeaks is a feature of...

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