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Saturday, April 9, 2011
Was WikiLeaks to Blame for the Upheaval in the Mid-East?
In a lecture on the current state of affairs in the Middle East David Sanger the NY Times Chief Washington Correspondent, made a claim, that one of the reasons for the chaos which began in Tunisia, was started because of information about the lifestyles of the leaders which was leaked on WikiLeaks, and it was the embarrassment of the entire world knowing this which led to the revolution. Is it really possible that WikiLeaks was actually able to on a somewhat direct level cause so much change? We will see, as time goes on what, if any, other significant events unfold in response to the information exposed by WikiLeaks.
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That's an interesting claim for the cause of all these revolutions, but I'm not quite sure I buy it. I think people knew how bad the conditions in these countries were for the general population before Wikileaks, but I guess it's possible that it reminded people how bad they really were. However, I just don't think it was out of embarrassment that the revolutions happened, more just out of frustration...
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