Wikileaks' most recent document dump to their website, has come at a terrible time for the Obama Administration. U.S. President Barack Obama's Democratic Party, just took a terrible beating in the mid-term elections this month and was attempting to regain momentum to move forward. 

The Wikileaks scandal has ripped open the veil of secrecy in his administration with more bombshells to come. Obama must be having a Maalox moment. The leak also occurred days after the President was accidentally elbowed in the mouth whilst playing basketball, which required 12 stitches. It's safe to say, Obama is having a bad month. 

However, what are the lessons he can learn and take away from this month, as it draws to a close. How will these terrible situations change him for the better, for the benefit of the American people. Will he change course or consign himself to complaining and blaming others for the fall of his presidency. He has an obligation to the American people to improve, as any president would be required to do.   

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U.S. criticism of British troops in Afghanistan angers families of the fallen

The families of British soldiers killed in Afghanistan last night hit back after U.S. military chiefs and Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai were revealed to have criticised UK efforts in  Helmand Province. The dispatches, published by Wikileaks, criticised the UK’s failure to secure Sangin, the deadly Taliban stronghold which was handed over to U.S. Marines in September.

Alun Hicks, whose son Captain David Hicks, 26, was mortally wounded in a rocket-­propelled grenade attack at a base near Sangin in 2007, said: ‘The U.S. takes a different view of how to approach these things. ‘We don’t have as many troops so we have to take a step-by-step approach to try and win people over. They throw everything at it and try to blast their way through.’...

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