On 12/14/2010 8:02 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>>> Védrine told France Inter radio that WikiLeaks “is the very proof that transparency, that sort of false golden calf, brings nothing. Contrary to President Wilson [US president during the First World War], who opposed secret diplomacy, I tend to think that in diplomacy which is entirely public there is always a risk of fanaticism.” Védrine denounced the “myth of absolute transparency” as “masked totalitarianism.”
> But Gideon Rachman wrote in his FT column the other day that Wikileaks proves that U.S. foreign policy is actually rather transparent - on most major issues (bracketing the salacious gossipy stuff), private comments mostly match public stances. Which is another version of my own point about how the leaks prove conspiracists to be rather off base.
I agree with you and Rachman very strongly. But I don't think your point invalidates Vedrine's
SA