WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks reports another electronic disruption

I think that the documents revealed by WikiLeaks are not as scandalous as the media makes them out to be. Diplomatic relations are hardly ever about personal liking, it is about mutual political and often economic benefits. I think that most diplomats are aware that other diplomats do not care for them, and it probably did not come as a shock to most of the diplomats in question. For example, "some U.S. diplomats raised questions about Turkey's reliability as a global partner, given the rise of pro-Islamist and anti-Israel sentiments within its government". If these criticisms had been made in public, it would have been a direct affront to the diplomatic relations between the U.S. and other countries. However, the fact that they were confidential and uncovered by a third party makes it more acceptable as the U.S. evidently never intended for them to be made public. Most of the leaked cables hardly reveal any outrageous information and seem to have served only the goal of shaking  the United States' foreign relations.
If the documents revealed any sensitive information, especially regarding current U.S. operations, it would have been an internecine attack that could endanger the current world political system, especially in the context of the rising tensions between dangerous nuclear states like North Korea and Iran and the unipolar superpower that is the United States. Add to that the rising influence and economic strength of China versus the economic weakness of the U.S. as well as the imperial perspective of Russia, and you get a recipe that could endanger the United States' position. That is not the case in the leaked documents, and unless WikiLeaks has its hands on another Watergate or Iran-Contra affair, I don't think it poses a threat to U.S. relations.