"Watch out, America. Let’s not be fooled this time!"
Elza S. Maalouf
Thank you Elza for posting Seymour Hersh’s article in The New Yorker. Mr. Hersh is one of America’s foremost investigative journalists, a specialized craft he has been practicing for 40 years. I am confident in Mr. Hersh’s information. He has been right over and over again – on the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and many others.
Basically, Mr. Hersh says that the US gave Israel the green light on attacking Hezbollah two months before the actual bomb campaign started for a number of reasons all dealing with Iran.
o To once again prove that an air campaign can work (which, by the way, it didn’t as Israel had to put boots on the ground within three weeks)
o To disarm Hezbollah’s missiles, so that when the US attacks Iran Hezbollah can’t attack Haifa and Tel Aviv with missiles.
o And lastly, to show the skeptics in the military that an air campaign can work without ground troops.
So, any truth to this? Well, while most of the newspapers headlined Bush’s speech today with a statement that “Hezbollah was to blame for the destruction and death in Lebanon,” at least one AP writer, Nedra Pickler, picked up on another statement. She writes, “President Bush said Monday the monthlong war between Israel and Hezbollah was part of a broader struggle between freedom and terror and ‘we can only imagine how much ore dangerous this conflict would be if Iran had the nuclear weapons it seeks.’ “
Remember, how two days after 9/11, the rhetoric started on the alleged connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq? Watch out, America. Let’s not be fooled this time.
Blog posted by Shirley Schwaller.
Shirley Schwaller is a former business journalist, whose areas of expertise included the oil industry. She wrote for various US and foreign newspapers, including AlSharq Al Awsat in Saudi Arabia.
Basically, Mr. Hersh says that the US gave Israel the green light on attacking Hezbollah two months before the actual bomb campaign started for a number of reasons all dealing with Iran.
o To once again prove that an air campaign can work (which, by the way, it didn’t as Israel had to put boots on the ground within three weeks)
o To disarm Hezbollah’s missiles, so that when the US attacks Iran Hezbollah can’t attack Haifa and Tel Aviv with missiles.
o And lastly, to show the skeptics in the military that an air campaign can work without ground troops.
So, any truth to this? Well, while most of the newspapers headlined Bush’s speech today with a statement that “Hezbollah was to blame for the destruction and death in Lebanon,” at least one AP writer, Nedra Pickler, picked up on another statement. She writes, “President Bush said Monday the monthlong war between Israel and Hezbollah was part of a broader struggle between freedom and terror and ‘we can only imagine how much ore dangerous this conflict would be if Iran had the nuclear weapons it seeks.’ “
Remember, how two days after 9/11, the rhetoric started on the alleged connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq? Watch out, America. Let’s not be fooled this time.
Blog posted by Shirley Schwaller.
Shirley Schwaller is a former business journalist, whose areas of expertise included the oil industry. She wrote for various US and foreign newspapers, including AlSharq Al Awsat in Saudi Arabia.
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