The Afghan Wikileaks

Intriguing article titled "How the Wikileaks are changing Afghan hearts and minds" in The New Republic. The premise is that:

For many Afghans, the release of thousands of secret military documents - which detail civilian casualties, corrupt officials, and meddlesome neighbors - amounts to a vindication of their view of the war. Many in the West argue the documents contain little new, and that may be true in general. But the devil resides in the details, and the details here paint a vivid and devastating picture of how Afghans view the American war.

Dare one ask how "many Afghans" can read the documents in English - or will be able to even if they are translated into Pashto and Dari? The hearts and minds that may be changed by the Wikileaks document trove are more likely to be those of monolingual English speakers - as the article makes clear, the documents reveal nothing that the insurgent Pashtuns have not known for a long time.