Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, on ISIS and extradition

[reorg]

Recent interview with Channel 4 News

[JDPriestly]

1. He seems tired but he does not lose his temper under pressure.

That is a sign to me that his mental health is not bad considering the stress and isolation and confinement he has suffered.

I could be wrong, but he seems to me that with regard to his mental health, that is the seemingly balanced state of his mind and the realism of his view of the world, he is doing better than Cheney who appears to be in total denial about for example the wisdom of invading Iraq.

It's hard for me to judge what the effect of the Wikileak revelations have been on the world, but the effect of some of the underlying foreign policy that Wikileaks revealed was so horrible that it is hard to judge how much of the events happening today like ISIS and the Egyptian rule by the generals, etc. can be attributed to Wikileaks and how much to our blundering heavy-handed foreign policy (mostly under Bush/Cheney).

[zeemike]

2. I don't think Cheney is in denial about what he has done.

Because he is a sociopath, and they never have regrets or a conscious about what they do...if the results is chaos then that is what they wanted.
How we ever let those kind of people near power is beyond me.

[silenttigersong]

3. Bingo

WE were lied into war and our media was complicit ,so the origins of the problem should begin with that.