The leak of classified documents from the State Department by WikiLeaks is cause for a great deal of comment...

What can be done?

The founder of WikiLeaks is not trying to expose evil, he just wants to hurt the United States.

Certainly the leak is powerful evidence about basic incompetence when it comes to information security in the U.S. government.

I think the U.S. soldier who downloaded the information and passed it on to WikiLeaks, if convicted, ought to be hanged.

I think the founder and leader of WikiLeaks should be captured, brought to the U.S., tried, convicted, and hanged.

I think the people who developed and maintained the pathetic security procedures that allowed a low-level stiff to steal the information should be rounded up, tried for their incompetence, and given stiff prison terms.

I think that none of the above will happen. Since it will not happen, I expect we will continue to face this kind of nonsense, further weakening the country.

Speaking of things that are weakening the country, Mort Zuckerman writes about deficits, debt, and a double-dip recession.