This afternoon on the NPR's Terry Gross' FRESH AIR program she interviewed NYT Chief Washington correspondent David Sanger...Sanger defended the WikiLeaks release of confidential docs and disagrees with Sen Lieberman, who on FOX recently said The NY Times should be investigated for printing these docs.
Sanger said these docs revealed the high price the US has paid for it's 2 wars in the mid-East and for the Bush admin to have concentrated almost all of its energy/attention on these wars at the expense of other int'l problems.
Sanger does not consider Assange a journalist because he does not research his stories but "just throws them out on the world-wide web"...and it is Sanger's opinion that Assange is trying to embarrass the United States. Terry Gross asked if it was more a case of damaging int'l relations than embarrassing the US - Sanger said it could, but that would not be a new problem. Sanger said the docs show the US was saying in private what it has been saying in public.
Sanger mentioned WikiLeaks docs reveal South Korea feels North Korea will soon fall - which many have said for years but she continues to survive. And that China is worried about NK's nuclear weapons, but not as much as the US worries about it...China is more worried about an implosion of NK, sending a flood of refugees across its border.
In discussing China, a country Sanger has traveled to many, many times, Sanger said China regards the US as a "fading world power", a "debtor nation".
Sanger mentioned on his recent visit to China he rode their bullet train and was reminded that while the US cannot spend money to upgrade AMTRAK because we are pouring so much money into 2 wars, China is speeding ahead of us and already has a network of bullet trains.
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