Rumor and Sy

Seymour Hersh with a major piece on the claims of Assad using Sarin gas in Syria, and Obama's response. Months ago I was among those critiquing media coverage of what I saw as hyped, unproven claims that nearly took us to war.  As we know, after much protest from the left, and some on right, Obama pulled back--and Assad then agreed to dismantle.  In Hersh's view, those second thoughts were likely sparked not so much by protest--but Obama realizing that he was being rolled with false or unproven intelligence by those those wanting us to bomb bomb bomb Syria.  These days Hersh is often proven right, though sometimes wrong.  I've never claimed belief that rebels launched the attacks but at the minimum the doubts about the whole tragedy should have precluded war.  And they did.