Hersh and NY Time Team Up to Damn U. S.
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Seymour Hersh and NY Times are at it again.
Seymour Hersh, 71. first gained worldwide recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai Massacre; then in 2006 he reported on an alleged US military plan for Iran, which allegedly called for the use of nuclear weapons against that country but that was later discredited, has now written an article in The New Yorker magazine criticizing the U. S. for staging covert special warfare operations to damage Iran.
Hersh’s article continues a pattern that has included: a 1986 book alleging that the Soviet murder of the civilians on Korean Air Flight 007 in September 1983 was a U. S. and Russian miscalculation; in 1991 his book The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy ignited debate about his intentions toward Israel and the U. S.; and in a 2004 article, he alleged that Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld circumvented the normal intelligence analysis function of the CIA in their quest to make the case for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The newest article cites disgruntled general officers pining for the good old days and openly disgruntled about maverick special operations who refuse to kiss their rings and simply get on with the “wet work” without hundreds of millions of dollars in support but with a knife or rifle. Since 1963 when JFK created the SEALS as a counter terror group in the US Navy military, traditionalists have opposed and resisted the idea of “special warfare” because that opposes their near Napoleonic tactics.
Simultaneously the NEW YORK TIMES wrote a front page article describing U. S. special operations in Iran and elsewhere that critics say exposes American special warfare troops to grave dangers, and is otherwise reprehensible.