The recent Internet release by “WikiLeaks” of hundreds of thousands of confidential diplomatic communications between the United States and other countries poses a real threat to our national security. It will make foreign leaders and diplomats less candid with U.S. officials, for fear that their remarks will be made public. That could deny our country information vital to our security.
The release of the documents should therefore be condemned forcefully, and any American who knowingly revealed to WikiLeaks documents that were supposed to be kept secret should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
But now that the documents are in the public domain and have been reported on heavily, at least one telling fact contained in them should be highlighted: Not only Israel and the United States, but also some Muslim nations of the Middle East recognize the threat posed by the radical Muslim regime that controls Iran.
As The Associated Press reported, the leaked diplomatic memos show that various Muslim nations believe that it is important for Iran’s nuclear capabilities to be destroyed.
The memos reveal that Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Bahrain all urged a U.S. military strike on Iran “to wipe out its nuclear weapons program …,” the AP pointed out.
Until now, it has been pretty much only Israel and the United States that have publicly discussed the possibility of a military strike to destroy the nuclear weapons capabilities of terrorism-sponsoring Iran.
But now the cat is out of the bag: The Muslim nations of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Bahrain also understand the serious danger if Iran manages to build or otherwise obtain nukes.
So no longer will Iran’s regime be able to claim that opposition to its actions is an Israeli-U.S. conspiracy against Islam. Rather, there is widespread (and justified) international condemnation of Iran’s behavior — even if some countries state their criticisms out loud and some don’t.
It should be interesting to see how Iran tries to explain away the opposition it faces from nations of multiple faiths and regions.