Max Boot on Seymour Hersh: Hersh, on the other hand, is the journalistic equivalent of Oliver Stone: a hard-left zealot who subscribes to the old counterculture conceit that a deep, dark conspiracy is running the U.S. government. In the 1960s the boogeyman was the “military- industrial complex.” Now it’s the “neoconservatives.” Hersh is the Chomsky … Continue reading “Another quote of the week”
Hersh, on the other hand, is the journalistic equivalent of Oliver Stone: a hard-left zealot who subscribes to the old counterculture conceit that a deep, dark conspiracy is running the U.S. government. In the 1960s the boogeyman was the “military- industrial complex.” Now it’s the “neoconservatives.”
Hersh is the Chomsky of journalism.
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I take it you don’t subscribe to Ike’s warning about the miltary-industrial complex.
It was a bit of an over-simplification. We live in a capitalist economy, where people do stuff for money, so you’ll always be able to “follow the money” in a fashion that seems to resemble a conspiracy. But these apparent conspiracies generally take place in a larger context that illuminates them as rational individual behaviors. The idea that bad people are plotting against us will always have its appeal, however.