{"id":3596,"date":"2006-06-14T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3596"},"modified":"2006-06-14T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T17:20:00","slug":"seymour-m-hersh-chain-of-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3596","title":{"rendered":"Seymour M Hersh: Chain of Command"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7264\/1161\/1600\/chain%20of%20command.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7264\/1161\/400\/chain%20of%20command.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Outstanding and compelling argument. A book which simply must be read in order to be informed on the torture controversies and related matters.<\/p>\n<p>Having spent so long researching the more loopy 9\/11 theories, it was really refreshing to read this, which is stamped with both humanity and sanity. It also, in part, undermines the 9\/11 conspiracy theories (why would Perle wait until 2 months <span>after <\/span>9\/11 to set up a company that would benefit if he was involved in planning it?). It has made me want to do another long post about 9\/11 and US foreign policy, because I think I am now shifting quite strongly against the conspiracy theories (not completely, but for all practical purposes). So watch this space.<\/p>\n<p>Also &#8211; last point &#8211; very interesting discussion at the end about Israel and the Kurds, which was an aspect to the current world situation I hadn&#8217;t appreciated. Gives more weight to <a href=\"http:\/\/live.armedforcesjournal.com\/2006\/06\/1833899\">this article<\/a> (HT <a href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/2006\/06\/the_melted_map.html\">Global Guerrillas<\/a>) which I read a couple of days ago, and would recommend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outstanding and compelling argument. A book which simply must be read in order to be informed on the torture controversies and related matters. Having spent so long researching the more loopy 9\/11 theories, it was really refreshing to read this, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3596\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-W0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}