{"id":216388,"date":"2016-01-15T03:08:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T03:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=216388"},"modified":"2016-01-15T03:08:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T03:08:23","slug":"german-economic-news-interviews-seymour-hersh-on-obamas-syria-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/german-economic-news-interviews-seymour-hersh-on-obamas-syria-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"German Economic News Interviews Seymour Hersh on Obama’s Syria Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, summary translation from the German:<\/span><\/p>\n

On January 14th, German Economic News interviewed the investigative reporter Seymour Hersh regarding Obama\u2019s war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad:<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

German Economic News:\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/b>You recently issued a highly acclaimed\u00a0<\/i>essay in the London Review of Books<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0in which you demonstrate that the US military was against the US invasion of Syria, but Obama didn\u2019t listen to their advice.\u00a0Why?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Hersh:\u00a0<\/b>I don\u2019t know, I have no explanation.\u00a0The fact is that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had gone to Obama and told him: If Assad falls, chaos will break out.\u00a0General Dempsey said that we must support Assad against the Islamists.\u00a0Even the Federal Intelligence Service (BND [Germany\u2019s intelligence agency]) supplied information to the Americans indicating that Assad is firmly supported by the Syrian people.\u00a0I can\u2019t read the thoughts of the President, but it was clear at the outset that there was no so-called “moderate opposition\u201d [such as Obama constantly referred to].\u00a0There were radical Islamists against Assad, but the vast majority of the Syrians were terrified of those fighters as being dangerous crazies. Syrians were fleeing from the Islamists, toward Damascus as refuge, because they felt protected by the Syrian Army. \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

The Americans failed on one thing above all: not recognizing that Syria, like Iraq and Libya, was a secular ally of the West. Instead, we overran these countries, overthrew their governments, and helped the rise of our worst enemies\u00a0\u2013 ISIS or Daesh and all the other extreme Sunnis.<\/span><\/p>\n

German Economic News:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Why didn\u2019t Obama recognize what he was doing?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Seymour Hersh:\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0I don\u2019t know. …<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, summary translation from the German: On January 14th, German Economic News interviewed the investigative reporter Seymour Hersh regarding Obama\u2019s war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: German Economic News:\u00a0\u00a0You recently issued a highly acclaimed\u00a0essay in the London Review of Books\u00a0in which you demonstrate that the US military was against the US invasion of Syria, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":195748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[907,522,8745,754],"class_list":{"0":"post-216388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-isis","9":"tag-obama","10":"tag-seymour-hersh","11":"tag-syria"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}