If the U.S. was negotiating with Iran on its nuclear program, then would it not have helped the U.S.'s hand to launch the attack on Syria? How would that attack have weakened the U.S. negotiating position?
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps betraying senior moments, long-time reporters Seymour “Sy” Hersh > (76) and Richard Sale (74) have penned articles of the sort that were > rampant in the weeks following Barack Obama’s threats to do something > about Bashar al-Assad’s August 21 sarin gas attack on East Ghouta. > Despite the consensus among the “anti-imperialist” left was that Obama > intended to attack Syria as a prelude to attacking Iran, after the > fashion of Hitler using Poland as a launching pad for invading the USSR, > it has been revealed that at that very moment the U.S. and Iran were > involved in secret talks designed to reorient American foreign policy > against the “jihadist” threat. > > full: > http://louisproyect.org/2013/12/09/semour-hersh-and-richard-sales-senior-moments/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
