January 18, 2005
Seymour Hersh heads for the air raid shelter--who's bombing? Rummy!
(I hate to link this, but...)THE COMING WARS*
What the Pentagon can now do in secret.
Ooh! Hersh is pulling the covers over his head, not because he's worried about the Iranian mullahs using the Muslim Bomb against us, but because SecDef Donald Rumsfeld is fully in control of the military arm of the war.
This piece (dare one call it a "fairy tale?") of Seymour's, which sets out an effective use of Special Forces teams in Iraq to prevent a nuke showdown, is merely an elaboration of his Salvadoran "death squads" theory.
Mr. Hersh bemoans the fact that Rummy acts at the behest of the President in wartime and is not subject to "Congressional oversight" more than he fears what will happen if these black ops fail and what the mullahs wil do if they get the bomb.
Sy Hersh is an idiot.
Quite rightly, both the incomparable Roger L. Simon and Stratfor.com think he's being "played" by the Bush Administration and being used in the war as the consummate Useful Idiot for psy ops.
If the Iranians are lead to believe that the U.S. is being led by slightly crazy, blood-thirsty, warmongering cowboys and that we're watching them very closely, more's the better!
*Does the fact that the forces of the Left are using The New Yorker for their tin-foil hat cr*p mean that their love affair with the NYSlimes is over or has the Times decided it can't lose anymore circulation over another Left Wing troublemaker like Hersh?
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