One writer I always read is Pulitzer-prize winner Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker. If you enjoyed his recent piece on our situation in Iran, The Redirection, you’ll enjoy this podcast interview with Hersh by Chris Lydon.
One writer I always read is Pulitzer-prize winner Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker. If you enjoyed his recent piece on our situation in Iran, The Redirection, you’ll enjoy this podcast interview with Hersh by Chris Lydon.
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Gen, did you read that article? It’s all speculation and innuendo based on predominately anonymous sources! It doesn’t REPORT, in the main, anything other than Hersh’s opinion. It also draws a bunch of faux strawman-style conclusions, which are irritating. There are some interesting facts in there, but they’re so buried that they get lost in his wild-eyed bluster.
Iran IS trying to foment unrest in Iraq, because they want us the heck out of there. That’s the story. They aren’t the ONLY cause of the insurgency, but they’re certainly helping it along in a pretty meaningful way. Iraq is a huge opportunity for Iran – and, indeed, the entire Middle East.
Let me make a suggestion to your readers: Seymour Hersh is a great provocateur with selective access to some portion of a really complex story, but he’s not REALLY a serious, analytical guy. If you read Hersh, and you should, you should bolster your understanding with about four other sources – and if two of them are al Manar, you’re hopeless and can ignore this entirely.
I’ll also point out that in his quote, it was only after we stopped interfering in a major way that Cambodia kicked off its genocide. So maybe a little covert/clandestine operation sometimes is in order…
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