WikiLeaks sets off diplomacy alarms

[jes]

WikiLeaks sets off diplomacy alarms

Is diplomacy in danger?

 

[Gatecrasher]

They should all use Facebook and save their taxpayers some money.

 

[Iroiro]

Under what international law can what wikileaks has done be considered illegal?

 

[Venom Rush]

Part of the recent wiki leaks - Documentation about Mandela's release from 1990
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/1990/01/90CAPETOWN97.html

 

[JerryMungo]

"The crazy old man," is how South Africa's International Relations Minister Maite Nkoane Mashabane is said to refer to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe - a remark that was likely to cause a stir in Harare given that South Africa is overseeing the implementation of Zimbabwe's power-sharing agreement.

Anyone who is surprised at that statement... no really peeps... wikileaks is not surprising to me in any way... its like old news.

 

[Sodan]

1. Article is WAYYY too long

2.

diplomacy - 3 dictionary results
di·plo·ma·cy   
[dih-ploh-muh-see] Show IPA
–noun
1.
the conduct by government officials of negotiations and other relations between nations.
2.
the art or science of conducting such negotiations.
3.
skill in managing negotiations, handling people, etc., so that there is little or no ill will; tact: Seating one's dinner guests often calls for considerable diplomacy.

So how do you classify disparaging remarks about non-US governmental members as part of "diplomacy"?

 

[Tpex]

Diplomacy: The art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock

 

[Valis]

These politicians calling Wikileaks "dangerous" and "illegal" all have their heads up their asses. I mean really, transparency is essential unless its not essential? These are the idiots running the world? Good grief!

 

[LazyLion]

actually, transparency is NOT essential until all communications have been concluded and policy put in place. Communications should rightly be private while still in the negotiation phase.

What you are seeing being leaked is not final policy, but the discussions that took place while still under negotiation.

No government in the world is going to let all of their private communications be seen at every phase of the discussion.

They are only responsible to report back to their citizens once the policy is ready to be enacted or the negotiations are complete.

 

[Moklet Kcuf]

As world reaction poured in, the condemnation was nearly universal

Yeah, by governments and diplomats. This article is a little biased, have to say.