What the Pentagon, the ruling elite, and the rest of us likely learned or should've learned -- before the weekend Assange incidents -- is pretty unpleasant: that most Americans don't care much (or nearly enough) about the obscene, and brutal to civilians, way the U.S. conducts its wars. I just don't think, after the relative low-keyness of the outrage over the Wikileaks revelations, seeing how little real impact it seemed to have, that the Pentagon and the powers that be in the U.S. worry that with the next slew of revelations 'the U.S. public will get really mad.'

Wikileaks is not a big deal to the powerful. Still, to teach him a lesson I suppose there is some motivation to 'teach Assange a lesson'. Just not a real strong one.

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