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Pulitzer winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s latest article on the Syria tragedy, in which he alleges that Pentagon leaders, including former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dempsey, conducted a secret alliance with Assad and Putin to undermine Obama, sent shockwaves around the internet. Especially pro-Assad and Pro-Putin circles greatly enjoyed it.
However as Shashank Joshi, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, underlined on twitter, the article is inconsistent and flawed. He explains, “What this has in common with Osama bin Laden-conspiracy is over-complicated, convoluted plot and really implausible details. And brought to you by the same cast of totally-legit characters, like ‘A longtime consultant to America’s intelligence community.’”
Joshi also gives an example of implausible details. For instance, Hersh would have his readers believe that the U.S. saw Assad as credible on the fate of the Golan Heights in 2013, while he wasn’t able to control many major towns in Syria.
Online news website Vox also pointed out that the story had three main problems. First it described General Dempsey as a dissident against Obama’s plan to arm Syrian rebels. This is nonsense because Dempsey both publicly and privately voiced a desire to do more to arm Syrian rebels. Secondly, Hersh doesn’t provide any sort of proof backing his claims. Finally, the allegation that the Pentagon is conspiring against President Obama is fundamentally at odds with the reality as we know it, Vox said. The American military leadership only follows the commander-in-chief, who is the President of the United States, and there is no apparent precedent for a conspiracy of the sort suggested by Hersh.
full: http://thekebabandcamel.com/the-uyghurs-lifesaving-escape-route-to-turkey-is-not-a-ratline-mr-hersh/
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