Hersh Watching Lebanon

Famed investigative reporter, Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker, has a very interesting article.
He alleges (from his sources) that Israel had told the US much ahead of time of its intention to attack Hizballah by air and that the US was studying this campaign in order to better evaluate a similar option it wanted in attacking Iran. HA supposedly gave Israel the excuse by staging their cross-border attack and kidnapping of 2 IDF soldiers. And the rest, as we know, is history (repeating itself).

His story is intriguiging, and may not be totally off-the-mark (wow! Israel and the US administration are friends!), but Hersh is known for being a bit of a sensationalist.

Hersh is an interesting guy because even though his biases tend to run Liberal (Richard Perle has called him a "terrorist" on CNN!), he's targeted both Conservatives and Liberals in his books and articles. For example, he wrote about Reagan allowing Pakistan to illegally arm itself with nuclear weapons which almost led to an all-out nuclear war with India and he also wrote about a corruption-laden (kinda Mafia-like) John F. Kennedy. Reagan and JFK are idolized within their respective followings and both Conservatives and Liberals have heavily derided Hersh in public.

For what it's worth (and it's a little long), this is a link to his article: here.