What Can We Learn From The Wikileaks Exposures?

The world is divided in the middle of those who condemn and those who condone the Wikileaks exposure and the jury is out on the personal character of founder Julian Assange. But positively this is just other nail in the coffin of my-interest-only-politics which has characterised world events for the last five years. The think why we ought to thank Assange, regardless of his personal agenda, is that this might just be the spur to getting citizen round argument tables, finding each other in the eye and saying, this is what we positively think about you. That can only be a good thing.

From Iran to North Korea, from India to China, the impression created by the West and by America in singular is one of a power desperately trying to cling to power at all costs which at times leads to calculated disingenuousness. The Wikileaks documents will only have confirmed what America's allies and enemies have always thought. In a tantalizing way, this will clear the air and pave the way for some honest negotiations. The era when America can look down on everybody else is now passed, just as once Britain's claims to greatness faded. China's and India's economic growth, Russia's daunting influence, and the adoption of nuclear power for civil and military purposes by smaller nations, will all serve to level the playing field in future relations. America has to accept that with good Christian humility.

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If we have learnt whatever from history, it is that it never pays to make a scapegoat of anybody. No matter how small and insignificant to begin with, groups with right on their side always end up production a splash and shaking the establishment. citizen notion the slave abolitionists would go away, that the suffragettes were just deluded women, but when an argument for what is right and just is made with passion and aggression, sooner or later the preparing gives in. Duplicate standards are the blight of the modern world, and Wikileaks specialises in blowing them apart. Why should Iran not have nuclear weapons when so many others have them? How do we know for a fact that their intentions are evil? If America was less aggressive, would the rest of the world not write back accordingly? Balanced trade policies, strategies which bonus up and advent nations, have always proved more productive than stand-off aggression. Germany was forgiven for its part in the second world war and helped to produce into one of the most excellent economies in the west. Would today's politicians be quite so generous?

Integrity, honesty, equanimity and generosity are all qualities which are going to be indispensable in tomorrow's world if we are all going to get on. Maybe Assange has found a way of ensuring that happens.

What Can We Learn From The Wikileaks Exposures?

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