Seymour Hersh’s latest opus focuses on the threat posed by Iran. He cites no reason to doubt that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program is strictly for civilian use, and he fails to ask what conceivable reason a country with Iran’s oil reserves could have for nuclear power other than to build a weapon. If the Iranian government were peaceful-minded, for example, wouldn’t it instead invest in increasing its refining capacity? And perhaps stop saying it wanted to destroy the United States and Israel? In Hersh’s head, the notion that Iran is openly hostile to the U.S., killing our soldiers in Iraq, is something of a mass delusion on the part of the Bush administration. Consider the following paragraph:
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