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You see the Arab Spring as a bad thing?



No, and that is precisely the point: the question is meant to suggest that if the result of publishing documents is an escalation in a conflict, it must be that publishing the documents was bad. Most people in America seem to agree that the Arab Spring was a good thing; I think it is therefore safe to conclude that it is not always bad to reveal information that causes a conflict to escalate.


"I think it is therefore safe to conclude that it is not always bad to reveal information that causes a conflict to escalate."

The other assumption also requires that the former stability is not predicated on existing harm.




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