Seymour Hersh: Please Be Careful

Published Eurasia Review

September 30, 2013

Seymour Hersh is not a right wing, tea party, gun toting, peckerwood!

Seymour Myron Hersh is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author. Mr. Hersh, it would seem is "outing" the most incompetent, naive, amateurish president in American history, for the liar he is, in his new -- yet to be published -- book. And while he is at it, Hersh unmasks the American Mainstream Media for their cowardliness, treachery, and the pathological stupidity by which they now conduct themselves. Quoting Mr. Hersh:

 "The republic's in trouble, we lie about everything, lying has become the staple." 

Mr. Hersh is going to expose the killing of Osama bin Laden. According to Mr. Hersh, everything we have been told is a lie. This is important, and yet you won’t hear or read about it on the nightly news or local media outlets. Lisa O’Carroll of The Guardian reported:

“The Obama administration lies systematically, he (Mr. Hersh) claims, yet none of the leviathans of American media, the TV networks or big print titles, challenge him.”

Mr. Hersh would be well advised to take care. In Africa, they throw people out of airplanes. In America, they get into fatal car accidents. 

This reminds me of David Halberstam's book, War In A Time Of Peace, published in 2001.  His book was one of the first attempts to speak the truth about American foreign policy in the Clinton era. Needless to say, it was not a flattering picture. 

Clinton's foreign policy was a farce, much like Obama’s today. The Clintons completely got it wrong: by changing the Somalia mission from feeding starving Somalis to nation building; by not intervening in Rwanda, the worst genocide since the Holocaust; by not taking a leading role to stop the Bosnia War; by conducting a virtual war in Kosovo, predicated on lies; and by supporting a buffoon, Boris Yeltsin, who politically and economically humiliated Russia.

The liberal establishment hated the book. David Halberstram was shunned by the left who had previously lionized him for his book on Vietnam (The Best and The Brightest). David Halberstram was killed in a "car accident" in Menlo Park, California, on April 23, 2007. Indeed, was it an accident?

Remember, the Clintons like to tell us that Hillary was co-President for those eight years of Bill’s administration. Hence, any criticism of the Clinton administration’s conduct of foreign policy also falls on Hillary Clinton. How often do you think the mainstream media is going to remind the American people of these events in the 2016 election?

Thinking about the Clinton Administration, here’s a short story. One of the most wonderful occasions of my life was to see my oldest daughter graduate from Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service (1997). But it was also one of the worst. I was forced to listen to the Clinton’s Russian expert, the naïve and foolish Strobe Talbot, the man most responsible for bring Vladimir Putin to power, give the Commencement Address. Who says liberals condemn torture? 

Be careful out there Mr. Hersh.

Lawrence S. Schneiderman is an International Consultant and Dr. of Public Policy, Vanderbilt University. The views expressed are the author’s own.

Unbelievable: Boehner Supports Syria Strike

Unbelievable!

John Boehner, the Republican Leader of the United States House of Representatives supports Obama's military intervention in Syria. The world views Obama as a naive and weak amateur, yet perma-tan John comes to his rescue! 

It’s the old canard. Trump up some false catastrophe -- then lie, obfuscate, intimidate, and malign. All the while a complicit mainstream media reports and editorializes the validity of your scam. But, you would not expect the Republican Party leadership to participate in this lie.

US foreign policy today is a farce, conducted as a comedy of errors: Obama, the reluctant warrior, morphing into George W. Bush, and seeking approval for a coalition of the willing, only to find his followers not there. 

Unbelievable!!

Never mind that the world, except for France, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, The Muslim Brotherhood, and al Qaeda, is opposed to intervention in Syria's civil war.

Never mind that it is yet to be proven that Assad ordered the chemical attack.

Never mind that this could be another ploy by Islamic rebels to get the US involved.

Never mind that the US has no national interest in Syria.

Never mind that the Syrian civil war does not threaten our national security, but invention would threaten the security of our allies in the region.

Never mind that Syria has neither threatened the US nor attacked our embassies and consulates.

Never mind that Obama and the RINOs want to militarily support the people who a year ago attacked United States sovereignty, e.g., Benghazi, Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood, and Yemen.

Never mind that Obama has not demonstrated in 5 years as President, and in his life for that matter, any ability to lead a country in military action, much less war.

Never mind that every military undertaking conducted by the Obama Administration has failed such as the surge in Afghanistan, Libya, and Benghazi.

Never mind that that most of the world believes the word of a former Russian KGB agent over that of the President and Secretary of State of the United States of America.

And, never mind that his diplomatic blunders have caused world leaders to recoil at his presence. 

In consideration of all of the above, instead of exercising leadership, and giving voice to 80% of the American public who believe the US should not get involved militarily in Syria, the Republican leadership of the House, and the unremitting interventionists John McCain and Lindsay Graham in the Senate, provide the most divisive and corrupt President in American history cover.

Unbelievable!!!

Lawrence S. Schneiderman is an International Consultant and Dr. of Public Policy, Vanderbilt University. The views expressed are the author’s own.