Hersh is dumb. Or worse.

I’ve come to the conclusion that Seymour Hersh is either hopelessly naive or an Agent Provocateur.

Today’s column:

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From Hiroshima to the Houthis, American presidents tend to overreach when they believe they are facing down communism or terrorism, and the world pays the price. …

It’s not a simple matter. But modern American history is full of presidents who made disastrous decisions when confronted with what they saw as challenges posed by Moscow. The Soviet Union had been America’s most important ally in the Second World War, but even before the war ended the emerging superpowers entered into a deadly new rivalry.

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Presidents don’t BELIEVE their own propaganda. Presidents spit out the requisite propaganda in order to stir up “popular pressure” for the wars that Presidents want to make.

The superpowers didn’t “enter into” a deadly new rivalry. Our war profiteers CREATED the rivalry immediately after FDR died, in order to guarantee permanent profits for the war profiteers.

Henry Wallace was there when it happened in 1945.

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The representatives of the Men Of Greed were his first visitors after FDR’s death. I recall on the train, coming back from Hyde Park where the president had just been buried. Truman’s first callers were Edwin Pauley and George Allen, the errand boys of the big corporations.

A month later Herbert Hoover was called in. The Engineer of the Great Depression helped engineer the about-face in FDR’s policies. Cabinet shifts were made. The men who had stood firm for FDR’s policies were the first to go. The Harrimans, the Snyders, the Forrestals of Wall Street, took over and with them came the policies of Wall Street. With them came the policy of gov’t on behalf of the few, gov’t against the people.

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[In 1948], it was at this strategic moment that the Red Menace was conveniently discovered in Greece. It was at this point in history that the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and an armaments economy were put over on the people to increase the profits of the few at the expense of the many.

They invoked the frightening word CRISIS whenever it suited their purpose. They wheeled in another Red Danger whenever it was needed to justify a new multi-billion expenditure for their cold war.

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