[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
I read the whole piece but unfortunately am not knowledgeable enough to weigh in on it.
However, Seymour Hersch is a hack who has been wrong - epically, monumentally wrong - so often in the past that nothing he writes can be trusted to have any truth to it whatsoever.
Off the top of my head, he implicated a US ambassador in a coup in Chile, he insisted Iran had no nuclear weapons program, that Iran was Bush’s next target complete with a tactical nuclear first-strike plan by the US, that George Bush persuaded the Iranians to hold the hostages until after the 1980 elections, a bunch of shit involving Kennedy, the Mafia, Marilyn Monroe, and Castro, and finally stories about Pakastani walk-ins and bin Laden’s body parts being thrown out of a helicopter.
I don’t trust a word this guy puts to paper.[/quote]
While Hersh’s credibility has certainly eroded over the years, it isn’t entirely gone.
Regardless, there are enough statements from named sources to lend some credence to the idea that President Obama is running a complete shitshow that even his own party and his advisers can’t get behind any longer.
I’m not familiar enough with Lt. General Flynn or Rep. Gabbard to make a judgment on their credibility, but where there’s smoke there is fire. There’s no doubt that the policy of arming “moderate” rebels is absolutely fucking bogus. The terms “moderate” and “rebel” are practically mutually exclusive, and as Putin has repeatedly pointed out, it makes no sense to waste time trying to place various groups into either a “moderate” or “extremist” category.
President Obama clearly suffers from an outdated mentality. He has shown little grasp of any sort of semi-complicated geopolitical analysis, and he’s never come across (at least to me) as the sort who commands respect from the sort of people that make up the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
And this certainly wouldn’t be the first time insubordination of this sort has happened. (see: Bill Harvey and Operation: Mongoose).
