Legendary investigative journalist Seymour M. Hirsch— who recently spoke at UCLA— finally let loose with his highly anticipated New Yorker article on the Bush Administration and Iran. In a 5000-word piece called “Shifting Targets” he writes that things haven’t gone exactly according to the administration’s plan and so the approach to problem has shifted, basically from nukes to terror and proxy war. In sum, the war in Iraq is now being redefined— years too late and for ulterior motives— as in fact a strategic conflict with Iran. But blaming Iran for the humiliating U.S. failure in Iraq is merely the latest rhetorical approach to persuade Americans of the need to bomb Tehran, according to Hirsch.
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