Germany & WikiLeaks

Today, after you view some of the comments coming out of WikiLeaks....you kinda end up scratching your head over anything worth saying.  Yes, there was a judgement that Chancellor Merkel was not prone to take any risks, and rarely showed any creativity.  Shocking?  No.  If you asked any German guy in a pub over a beer if Merkel would make a great soccer coach....they'd start laughing because she simply doesn't want to ever take risks, and she wasn't out making new strategies out of old strategies.

Yes, the might analytical power of the US State Department had classified this nature of Merkel as secret, yet most every German would have repeated the same statement.

Then you had the comment on the Foreign Minister Westerwelle.....as incompetent and anti-US.  Again, this comes out of a state department analyst.  Most Germans in a pub setting....would readily agree that Westerwelle took a job that he doesn't really fit into.....and as for the anti-American comment....it'd be hard to prove or disprove this.

There's probably dozens of messages that provide some moment of analysis over what German leadership said or did.....and some bold interpretation over the situation.

My belief is that a guy who regularly reads my blog probably gets better "intelligence" over Germany....than what the State Department dreams up.  Although I admit that food and beer make into my blog a fair bit and the State Department would never....ever....report on things like that.

So the bold shock of WikiLeaks has come and gone.  By Tuesday....folks will have forgotten the comments, the secret messages, WikiLeaks, and gone back to study the latest soccer scores.