perfidy

Over the last almost five years, there have been many comparisons between the current War on Terror and the Second World War. (Along with many comparisons to other wars, to be sure.) One manifestation of this has been the recurrent - at least within the blog world - recasting of media coverage of WWII events in the style and with the biases of our current media. Most of these are rather blunt, though often amusing. Jay Tea of Wizbang has come up with, I think, a masterwork of this genre. Lest he get a big head, this is a very, very small genre. Read the whole thing.

I have not read all the details yet regarding the intelligence program that was revealed by the Times. But it strikes me that while freedom of the press is important - and there weren't, to my knowledge, any threats of censorship - discretion is also something that we used to admire. It seems that the program was legal. Disclosing the nature of the program could only help our enemies. What possible purpose could publishing this article have save doing exactly that? Why do they hate our freedom?