<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><b>From Paul Street on a ZNet article:</b><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">“The
lesson; no, the message; no, um, the takeaway of the leaked documents
is not: if only they knew how badly it's going, how hard it's going to
be, then the administration would bring an end to the conflict. Rather,
the takeaway; no, the message is that even knowing how badly the war
goes, they persist. The lesson is not the Administration's blindness,
but its dogged intransigence, its total commitment to the endeavor,
regardless of the means or outcome, regardless of the possibility of
reward, regardless of the cost, regardless of suffering, regardless of
sense and duration. The United States has an institutional commitment to
the occupation of Afghanistan. It can't be argued out of it.”<b>[7]</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">One of the best reflections about Wiki-Leaks and related matters. See</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.zcommunications.org/revealing-moments-by-paul-street">http://www.zcommunications.org/revealing-moments-by-paul-street</a></span></font></div><div><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><b><br></b></span></div></body></html>