HERSH: There was a meeting. Among the items considered and rejected \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which is why the New Yorker did not publish it, on grounds that it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t accepted \u00e2\u20ac\u201d one of the items was why not\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t we build \u00e2\u20ac\u201d we in our shipyard \u00e2\u20ac\u201d build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up. Might cost some lives.<\/p>\n
And it was rejected because you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have Americans killing Americans. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the kind of \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the level of stuff we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re talking about. Provocation. But that was rejected.<\/p>\n
So I can understand the argument for not writing something that was rejected \u00e2\u20ac\u201d uh maybe. My attitude always towards editors is they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re mice training to be rats.<\/p>\n
But the point is jejune, if you know what that means. Silly? Maybe. But potentially very lethal. Because one of the things they learned in the incident was the American public, if you get the right incident, the American public will support bang-bang-kiss-kiss. You know, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re into it.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6What happened in the Gulf was, in the Straits, in early January, the President was just about to go to the Middle East for a visit. So that was one reason they wanted to gin it up. Get it going.<\/p>\n
Look, is it high school? Yeah. Are we playing high school with you know 5,000 nuclear warheads in our arsenal? Yeah we are. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re playing, you know, who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the first guy to run off the highway with us and Iran.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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