The elephant in the Wikileaks documents that our "fearful leaders" don't want the American public to see or contemplate is that the US is funding the Taliban via Pakistan aid. In essence, the US is funding a proxy war against our own soldiers and the Afghan people.
Frank Rich's New York Times op-ed, Kiss This War Goodbye, obligingly publicizes this propaganda kernel in paragraph 4, telling the American public "there is nothing to see here, move along" with regard to the Wikileaks Afghanistan documents:
Last week the left and right reached a rare consensus. The war logs are no Pentagon Papers. They are historic documents describing events largely predating the current administration. They contain no news. They will not change the course of the war.
But, in paragraph 11, Rich refutes Obama's premise that the leaked documents "don’t reveal any issues that haven’t already informed our public debate in Afghanistan":
the morbid reality, highlighted in the logs, of the de facto money-laundering scheme that siphons American taxpayers’ money through the Pakistan government to the Taliban, who then disperse it to kill Americans.
The US fought a proxy war with the Soviet Union in Afghanistan [The US and Soviet Proxy War in Afghanistan] by funding the Taliban/Al Qaeda, and now the Wikileaks documents show that the US, the sole super power, is still funding the Taliban to buy weapons, but now our taxdollars are spent fighting our own troops!
Please watch this ABC video, "Wikileaks Docs Detail Afghan War's Downside":
It's a lie that the US is over there to build democracies. The US has a history of destroying democracies, because democratically elected PMs like Mossadegh in Iran [1953 Iranian coup d'état] and Salvador Allende in Chile [1973 Chilean coup d'état] serve their own people by nationalizing the oil, copper, lithium, bananas, water, etc. that corporations and special interest lobbyists covet.
The US funds the Taliban, which in turn keeps the "war" going, while the US establish bases and secret torture prisons, and Frank Rich/Obama/MSM are diverting our attention away from this ugly fact by saying we already knew everything in the documents, so let's move on and not take a good, long look at them.
However, I never heard of Task Force 373 – special forces hunting top Taliban.
The Nato coalition in Afghanistan has been using an undisclosed "black" unit of special forces, Task Force 373, to hunt down targets for death or detention without trial. Details of more than 2,000 senior figures from the Taliban and al-Qaida are held on a "kill or capture" list, known as Jpel, the joint prioritised effects list.
In many cases, the unit has set out to seize a target for internment, but in others it has simply killed them without attempting to capture. The logs reveal that TF 373 has also killed civilian men, women and children and even Afghan police officers who have strayed into its path.
Nor did I know: Osama Bin Laden reported to have issued orders to suicide bombers in Afghanistan as late as 2006 in monthly meetings on Pakistan/Afghan border.
I didn't know that our tax dollars are still funding the Taliban to fight a proxy war, but this time the proxy war is against our own troops!
They said they don't do body counts, but the Wikileak documents show that they are doing body counts, but they don't want the American citizens to see the horror done in our names: Afghanistan war logs: Five in car, including toddler, machine-gunned by patrol.
They claim that the reason they don't want to publicize the death of a toddler, machine gunned down at a check-point, is not to inflame Afghan ire against our troops, but the Afghani are fully aware of these atrocities.
They just don't want us to know the truth, because if more Americans knew that we fund our "enemy," kill innocent babies, and how many Afghan children are starving, we could truly "kiss" their immoral wars "goodbye."
Wikileaks Julian Assange answers Andrea Mitchell's repetition of the canard that the leaked document contain nothing new and could endanger our troops by explaining that you can't have it both ways, either the documents are relevant or they are not: