WIKILEAKS

I think the reason this US State Department information was available to a private first class, a very LOW rank, is that the cables were designed as an insider's political and historical lesson for people being considered for the job of political analyst.

This information is either NOT a surprise or is a logical extrapolation of events in the news.

I WAS surprised by the Chinese envoy's comments about North Korea, but it makes sense that China would prefer that South Korea be saddled with the expense of a shattered North Korea.

The snarky comments were left in the cables to keep people interested in reading the stuff, which is mostly fairly boring information.

BTW, I read the entire cable about Prince Andrew and I think it was the Americans that Prince Andrew was "just short of rude" to. His hosts seem to have been very pleased with him.

The Guardian in London has almost all of the cables up in a searchable date base.

Oh, and I was almost certainly RIGHT about China and backdoors! It is time to stop infighting and PAY ATTENTION. (All you need to do is search for the Google China information, and the information on part of the internet, including military information, being briefly diverted to China, instead of where it was supposed to go.)