The advantage the American government has in the information war swirling around Afghanistan and Iraq is the malleability of the naive white Christians. These unfortunate and misled people are the last true-believers in their government's propaganda about Afghanistan and Iraq. As long as these naive people support Obama's wars of occupation, the wars will continue for the reasons expressed by Brian Becker in this RT interview. Take away the support of the white Christian Americans, and, Obama's grand strategy for "victory" will collapse like a house of cards. I believe that Obama and his generals know that they can not continue to keep the truth away from the American people. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz et al, put on a full-court press to deceive the American people and keep them in the dark. They were successful because they had the power to instill fear in the minds of the American people, particularly in the naive white Christian Americans. No one will forget the color-coated fear sirens that blared throughout the Bush era. Each leak of reality weakens the support of the American people for Obama's "wars of occupation". That is why the Obama administration and the Pentagon are doing their level best to paint the WikiLeak revelations as "old news", and nothing to worry about. But the American people are becoming wise to their government's con-game of injecting fear into their minds, and are slowly opening up their eyes. WikiLeak is the eye wash needed to clear the government's propaganda from the eyes of the blinded American people.

Russia and RT pretends this info is damaging to the US.

The Afghan fiasco will have different political impacts depending on where you live. In Europe the impact is likely to be profound. Russia has offered all possible help (short of troops) to NATO forces. So NATO's failure cannot be blamed on Russian opportunism. But this failure marks the end of NATO's out of area ambitions. And its only remaining role is again the defense of Europe. But defending Europe from what? Not Russia with armed forces of about a million personnel. And without the ability to manufacture some new enemy NATO appears as an expensive,dangerous , Cold War, dinosaur. Perhaps some one in the Russian government could lend NATO a hand. A bombastic speech full of military threats against Europe ,by a credible leader, is urgently required by this alliance.

Let both sides lay down their guns and study war no more