What I think is that, nowadays, ideologies take the place of religion in politics, which determine whether this or that is right. Whether a war is justified. Whether a coup d'état, or a dictatorship, or a revolution is right or wrong.
And if so, if the integrity is seen as being disturbed (offended) and therefore formulated as an indictment, is not a court needed to judge the case and to give a final decision whether it was needed that documents must have had to be leaked or not and whether the whistleblowers are guilty of what they are accused of, or not (or partly)?
The problem is, who is going to judge, those who judge? Because if those who are in charge of doing justice have their hands dirty, no matter to which authority you appeal, be it national or international, nothing will happen.
And furthermore, if by "US" they mean people, then it would have to be seen whether the people were offended, or the representatives of the people were offended. Also, it would be necessary to see, as you say, if the representatives of the people themselves did not offend the people with their actions. This is quite likely.
I think that if we move away from the divine, and start looking for justice in men, I'm afraid we may not find it.
I agree.
We, the peoples, are so identified with celebrities, politicians, the big players on the world stage that we forgot about ourselves in the sense that what is small in nature, is huge in scope (like Chesterton pointed it out). If we, the peoples don't live up to what is there and was there for a very long time (religious order) we will not get living examples of this order in the higher levels of hierarchy. We then are the victims of what we call evil while omit what can be done in our small cosmos of possibilities. This is why I find marriage and man-women relationship so important.
I very much agree with what you say. The macrocosm (big order) follows the microcosm (small order) and vice versa. The moment we forget ourselves is the moment we lose power, or maybe, our agency. But when we focus on ourselves, when we give value to the "small things", we realize that, not only do we have more power than we thought, but also that the outside has less power over us than we assumed.
I am a strong advocate of "focus on what I can control and have faith in the rest". And what I've discovered in this regard is that surrendering in terms of any external outcome is often the best way to go about things. Then results matter less, and what we do more.
Yes, a very good motto. :)