Published Eurasia Review
September 30, 2013
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.
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