Telling Us the Obvious
Richard Cohen, New York Daily News
The news in that massive data dump provided by the dauntingly mysterious Wikileaks (who? what?) to one American and two European publications is that there is no news at all. We already knew that the war in Afghanistan was not going well. We already knew -- or, in the words of The New York Times, "harbored strong suspicions" -- that Pakistan's military spy service was aiding the Taliban (with friends like this ... ) and we already knew that Afghanistan's army and police would be reformed and able to stand up to the Taliban sometime around when pigs fly or Washington...
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/27/telling_us_the_obvious_106484.html