Wikileaks and The Bible

Hilary Clinton did all she could that lay within her (considerable) power to hype up the expectations over the disclosures on Wikileaks. After the first part of these revelations is out, the only question I have is: How much was she paid for that free publicity?

What have Wikileaks revealed so far? The common theme of the leaks is that diplomats gossip. That is undoubtedly a major revelation and due to put lives at risk. Everybody hates gossip, or don’t they? Apart from that, there was the insight that diplomats are arrogant snobs (please take note that I left out ‘American’ on purpose, because the rule applies to all). But we knew that already; they leave their cars parked where they disrupt traffic the most because they never have to pay their fines; they use their diplomatic immunity to smuggle contraband; they are richly paid for their 24/7 jobs (in this case that’s 24 days in 7 years). American diplomats might be a bit more arrogant than others as they have to buy their posts, but otherwise anybody with a CD or CC number plate on their cars falls into that category.

There were the shattering revelations about what the diplomats said about other country leaders; calling French President Nicholas Sakozy an emperor without clothes amused me, but it’s just a candid and still very diplomatic assessment of a failure; Russia’s Putin is an Alpha dog (so what?); Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi takes bribes, but we all knew that already; and Switzerland is a frustrating Alpine republic. Yes it is, even for the people who live there and call it home.

I could continue in this vein for hours, I’m afraid. It’s Ricky Martin and FIFA all over; was there anybody who was really surprised at these ‘news’? I call the whole set-up a no-news-site. It was the same with the Iraq and Afghanistan revelations; there was nothing in there that wasn’t already known. Makes you wonder why the American government spends so much effort on promoting the site. What horrors must be lying in the cellar of Capitol Hill to go to such length in boring diversion?

Some newspapers tried to link the leak to Hilary Clinton (it is, after all, her department that was incontinent). But the revelations are so harmless the question arises why they were released? A security leak in the American government? You bet. The only smile I got out of that approach was the joke: “Embarrassed? Me? Mrs Bill Clinton?”

No, that was not the Bible part. The Bible comes in with Ecclesiastes 1,9. I’ll leave you to hunt it down yourself. You’ll know it when you see it.

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