Wikileaks and Whistleblowers

I watched "collateral murder" and I think every American should see it. People get hung up on picking sides on both the right and the left when it comes to this kind of thing. Here is what I think: Private Manning was not being unpatriotic by releasing this video to the public, and Assange is not crossing any lines. If this was about the Viet Nam war then there would not be so much objection to the truth on the battle field. But this is about a current war and the behavior of our country right now. That is too much for some people to accept. I do not think that these particular soldiers should be punished either, for the film really reflects an attitude that we all carry responsibility for. We do not live in an age where one side is morally correct either. America is a machine with a fierce military component that has no sympathy for the weak and powerless. Our actions and attitudes in our everyday lives contribute to what happens out there no matter what we think we believe. Assange did our country a favor, for the world will blame us, the American people, for this mess, and this video explains why. We are becoming monsters and nobody seems to care. Instead the news media argues over weather or not the Reuters reporter's camera looks like a gun in the grainy film. But what strikes a chord with me is the wrath that our military technology can bring down on a body and how unemotional we are when it comes to operating such weaponry.