With once secret U.S. diplomatic cables washing over the world, are we getting all worked up over gossip everyone already new? According to columnist Clovis Rossi of Brazil’s Folha newspaper, so far at least, there is precious little ‘news’ coming out of the hundreds of thousands of U.S. State Department cables doled out to some of the world’s leading newspapers.
For Brazil’s Folha, Clovis Rossi writes in part:
Do you believe that the Brazilian Embassy in Buenos Aires doesn’t send cables (I know it’s no longer technically a cable, but it continues to be called one) about political life in Argentina, with value judgments on relevant personalities in the country?
One doesn’t need a confidential document to know that the primordial drive behind U.S. diplomacy is to stop Iran from obtaining an atomic weapon. Of course, it’s shocking to see the crude manner in which the leaders of Arab nations refer to the need to contain Iran, even by force. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia even talks of cutting off the “head of the snake.”
Nor is it a secret that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi throws “wild parties,” as one of the leaks says. Or that the Lula government is a “heap of leftist militants,” as stated in a cable from then-Ambassador Clifford Sobel and recovered by Fernando Rodrigues – another beautiful piece of journalism from Folha.
Setting aside the “heap” that is derogatory, the Lula Administration is proud of having leftist militants in its midst, just as the leftist militants are proud to be there. No one needs a foreign ambassador to discover this.
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