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Lot in that.
Juan Cole blog takes other views, like why the US apparatus is so focused on Iran. Go around to a bunch of regular suspects and ask them things about what you and some other guy could fight about, and you get lots of traffic.
What useful cables address the potential; failings/challenges of those parties themselves---The Demographic Bomb in Isreal, the Democracy Bomb everywhere in these respondent's home turfs.
I hope we are not just getting what we are going out looking for. Diplomats like Patterson should be effective eyes and ears on matters, and alternative frames of matters, that are important, and not just on what is popular and printable.
Let's remember that the most publicized of these cables are the same gossipy "hot topics" that the press wants, too.
All the power elites like this kind of hot gossip as much as the public, but more so if it is "secret" for them. The authors of these hottest cables, out in the field and clawing from attention insight the beltway, are not immune to the temptation to right a hot memo.
Like the wise hands here and elsewhere note, there is a legitimate bridge to cross to convert field reports to wisdom.
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