Why Facts Are Inadequate
On Seymour M. Hersh's "Strike in the Dark", about as twisting a narrative as possible, I would go one further. It's less than what's already out there. Racing through the corridors if elected and bureaucratic hackdom distracts...
Sometime after midnight on September 6, 2007, at least four low-flying Israeli Air Force fighters crossed into Syrian airspace and carried out a secret bombing mission on the banks of the Euphrates River, about ninety miles north of the Iraq border. The seemingly unprovoked bombing, which came after months of heightened tension between Israel and Syria over military exercises and troop buildups by both sides along the Golan Heights, was, by almost any definition, an act of war.
Hersh should have stopped here, as wiser souls do. Besides, let's gear up for the Iran meme.
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3 months and 6 days ago
It's easy to listen when you only have three readers!
3 months and 6 days ago
I like the new comments look.
Yay! Blank lines!
Thanks for listening to you readers.
3 months and 7 days ago
I believe I'm going to revamp the comments soon. I don't like how they work, either.
3 months and 7 days ago
BTW, what happened to your «preview» button?
Second picayune gripe: Is there a way to preserve blank lines in comments? They always get swallowed up upon posting.
3 months and 7 days ago
If you're saying that Hersch took a long time to say «we don't really know much,» I agree -- I had the same reaction while reading his article.
On the other hand, I think it's a very good thing that some in the media make an effort to document everything that they can, even if, as in this case, the result is just an assemblage of facts and quotes that don't tell a satisfying story. We can't always know everything, so the next best thing to do is get what we do know and put it in one place. At the very least, Hersch's article represents a good step in what I hope will be an ongoing investigation.
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