[coldtea]

>Stratfor is not the military-industrial complex.

No, it's just a tool it uses and with ties to governments, foreign diplomacy, policy makers etc. And it's not only about Statfor, it's about sending a message against this kind of journalism and against meddling with this kind of institutions and interests.

Whether "serious foreign policy journalists, made fun of Stratfor" doesn't say much. They also make fun of the CIA as incompetents who couldn't predict things like the fall of the Soviet Union and so on...

[tptacek]

You don't think it's dangerous to suggest that we should decriminalize attacks on private journalism outlets simply because we don't like their perspective on our issues? That's what people who bomb abortion clinics think.

The military-industrial complex did not "use Stratfor as a tool". The military-industrial though Stratfor was a bunch of tools.

Here's ex- Atlantic and WaPo writer Max Fisher (now at Vox) on Stratfor:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/02/str...

Here's Daniel Drezner from Foreign Policy:

http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/future-imperfect

http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/wake-me-when-wikileaks-p...