Focused is certainly the key to listening to Seymour Hersh. In his
recent interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now, he was so
disjointed, and jumped from subject to some incidental point, that I
had to sit up in bed. I listen to the program at 5:00 A.M. as I'm
waking up. Sometimes I turn on the radio, start listening and wake up
again, half way through the next program.
I get the feeling that Seymour Hersh's brain is processing dozens of
ideas and issues all at one time, and he is rushing to get them out.
He certainly writes more clearly than he speaks.
That's not a criticism. I really appreciate his contributions.
Carl Jarvis
On 4/25/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Because Seymour Hersh was interviewed on Democracy Now today, I just wanted
to remind anyone who might be interested, that his new book, The Killing of
Osama Bin Laden is on Bookshare. It covers the true facts about the murder
of Bin Laden, as well as all of the information about the 2013 Sarin attack
in Syria. I haven't quite finished it yet so I'm not sure if it covers
other
issues. However, it is a short book. I'd read two of the articles on line,
but there's more detail in the book. During the Democracy Now interview,
Hersh also pointed out that during Jeffrey Goldberg's recent interview with
Obama in the Atlantic, (and I did read that interview and remembered the
reference), Obama said that he'd been told by one of our generals that the
conclusion that the Syrian government was responsible for the sarin attack
was not a slam dunk. I was really eager to read this book. But be aware
that Hersh's writing is very dense, filled with consequential facts and
unless one is completely and constantly focused on the text, it's easy to
miss important material.
Miriam