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| Subject: Objectivists' Silence On Wikileaks Mon Dec 20, 2010 3:00 am | |
| By Reginald Firehammer
What the Wikileaks releases have thus far revealed is both the disaster and horror the Middle East wars are and the corruption in American diplomatic relations, especially in the Middle East. Since ARI supports those wars and even campaigns for more, such as bombing Iran, and since it supports American diplomatic support of Israel, the Wikileaks leaks are an embarrassment to ARI's own foreign policy. I'm sure they would like to attack Assange and Wikileaks in the same way The Undercurrent article attacked him.
To do so, however, would tip their hand, and would be a blatant contradiction of the Objectivist defense of a free press. While they might take the, "revealing military and diplomatic secrets is treason," approach, even they know it would easily be seen as a cover for their true motives.
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