The reporter in me is fascinated by the ongoing story of Wiki-leaks, and its decision to post online 76,000 classified or otherwise secret documents about the U.S. war in Afghanistan—mostly because I no idea that our messy situation in Afghanistan was, you know, news. Nevertheless, Wiki-leaks made a gigantic splash by sharing those documents with the New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel, which on July 25 jointly broke the supposed story that our military mission in Afghanistan has been going poorly pretty much since U.S. troops arrived there in 2001.
