The treatment of Manning shows to what kind of a country the US has become. Many Americans are seeing it themselves, but not the great mass of people who don't care about anything but the latest soap opera, dead celebrity or the price of petrol.
It was a very long time since it was a fair and decent democracy.
This is no longer the America I once believed in. In fact, I am sometimes not sure how much of it was illusion all along. I have no doubt that Manning will be punished to the fullest extent of military law. And it's sad, because there are higher moral laws which he was following.