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In reply to the discussion: Assange/Wikileaks talk about who they admire…wait for it…& the answer is Ron/Rand Paul & Matt Drudge [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)therefore his views on what might be the "best hope" in American politics is about as useless as an American's ill-informed and ignorant opinion of Australian politics. To an outside observer, Ron Paul and perhaps Rand Paul may look perfectly reasonable, because they're some of the only people in the US Congress who've actually questioned the foreign policy of the past decade and the wisdom of the USA's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, American support for Israel, torture and extraodinary rendition, and so on. So you know, to Assange, they probably look considerably better than the other American politicians who get reported in the foreign press. Selective perception, and Assange as a non-US citizen would be more concerned with the USA's foreign policy than domestic policy.