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James Rubin and David Sanger: Toppling Mideast Dictators

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NY Times' David Sanger on Publication of WikiLeaks Cables

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David E. Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, discusses the editorial process the newspaper used to decide how to publish the leaked cables it received from WikiLeaks.
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dictatorship: Form of government in which one person or an oligarchy possesses absolute power without effective constitutional checks. With constitutional democracy, it is one of the two chief forms of government in use today. Modern dictators usually use force or fraud to gain power and then keep it through intimidation, terror, suppression of civil liberties, and control of the mass media. In 20th-century Latin America, nationalist leaders often achieved power through the military and attempted either to maintain the privileged elite or to institute far-reaching social reform, depending on their class sympathies. In Europe's communist and fascist dictatorships, a charismatic leader of a mass party used an official ideology to maintain his regime, and terror and propaganda to suppress opposition. In postcolonial Africa and Asia, dictators have often retained power by establishing one-party rule after a military takeover.; dictatorship on britannica.com
Middle East: Geographic region where Europe, Africa, and Asia meet. It is an unofficial and imprecise term that now generally encompasses the lands around the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea—notably Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, and Syria—as well as Iran, Iraq, and the countries of the Arabian Peninsula. Afghanistan, Libya, Turkey, and The Sudan are sometimes also included. The term was formerly used by Western geographers and historians to describe the region from the Persian Gulf to Southeast Asia; Near East is sometimes used to describe the same area.; Middle East on britannica.com

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moglewer

Posted: 05.01.11, 07:04 AM

James Rubin, for all his education, erudition and experience, commits a fatal error. He sharply criticizes the Wikileaks exposures as harmful to American diplomacy and international relations by inducing foreign governments not to speak candidly. This will hamper US intelligence assessments. Later he criticizes the Obama Administration for failure to foresee the Arab spring uprising and our backing of discredited autocrats. This is an oxymoron. If with all our candid conversations in the international arena the US was caught flat-footed, how good was all our intelligence? Perhaps the Wikileaks exposures may do much good by exposing to the public the failures of American governance.

theknopfknows

Posted: 04.28.11, 07:27 PM

CAN´T take too much of this poop. Rubin is a public relations corporate mouth Works for GOV´t and Military corporations, also loves secrets gov´t secrets the military kind which is WHY RUBIN hates Julian Assange, Rubin is a LIAR HE will never tell you the truth For him the truth is not profitable a good smoke screen to nowhere.