On: Wikileaks has really misled the public

[jeswin]

ok, I'll bite.

Well, the counter argument is that by this logic nobody can talk about human rights... All I was saying was that when you don't practice what you preach, your credibility suffers.

This is rhetoric, and isn't an interesting statement about what happened in this video... Isn't this exactly what is happening on the ground, in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan? Do you read any local news (easily available on the internet) from those countries?

I don't think many people understand the magnitude of suffering in those countries. Do the math, Iraq is a tenth of the size of the US. Work out the per-capita "suffering".

[sp332 → jeswin]

>All I was saying was that when you don't practice what you preach, your credibility suffers.

That's not what you said. You said Americans don't have the right to discuss human rights.

>...what gives America the moral right to talk about human rights...