[Peace-discuss] Double-think in the ideological institutions

[C. G. Estabrook]

The Wikileaks documents expose the contempt for democracy in the US government.

The theme continues in the commentary:

today the NYT runs an op-ed from an emeritus professor of history at the 
University of Illinois, who writes "...diplomatic correspondence and 
negotiations ... ought to be released only after passions have settled and 
scholars [like - guess who?] can examine the records in fuller context."  Then 
comes the killer:

"Especially in a democracy [sic - otherwise the unwashed get to comment, instead 
of just dying], the goal of negotiations should be to secretly reach an 
agreement..."

You can't make this stuff up - unless you're George Orwell.