Admiral Michael Mullen claims Wikileaks doesn’t understand how small pieces of information can create a new understanding. To the contrary, Wikileaks appears to understand this quite well.

The argument that reducing U.S.-caused civilian casualties and contrasting their number with the Taliban’s brutality will contribute to a “strategically decisive” embrace of the U.S.’s allies in Afghanistan has been trumped.

In his visit today to Israel, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen said “I always try to see the threats and the challenges from an Israeli perspective.”