Turkey Cooks the Books in Syria | Global Research

Turkey Cooks the Books in Syria | Global Research

If you had been a reader of The American Conservative magazine
back in December 2011, you might have learned from an article written by
me that “Unmarked NATO warplanes are arriving at Turkish military bases
close to Iskenderum on the Syrian border, delivering weapons [to the
Free Syrian Army] derived from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s arsenals…”
Well, it seems that the rest of the media is beginning to catch up with
the old news, supplemented with significant details by Sy Hersh in the
latest issue of the London Review of Books in an article entitled “The Red Line and the Rat Line.”

The reality is that numerous former intelligence officials, like
myself, have long known most of the story surrounding the on-again
off-again intervention by the United States and others in Syria, but
what was needed was a Sy Hersh, with his unmatched range of contacts
deep in both the Pentagon as well as at CIA and State Department, to
stitch it all together with corroboration from multiple sources. In a
sense it was a secret that wasn’t really very well hidden but which the
mainstream media wouldn’t touch with a barge pole because it revealed
that the Obama Administration, just like the Bushies who preceded it,
has been actively though clandestinely conspiring to overthrow yet
another government in the Middle East. One might well conclude that the
White House is like the Bourbon Kings of France in that it never forgets
anything but never learns anything either.