{"id":4967,"date":"2026-06-04T09:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/adventure\/?p=4967"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:40:19","slug":"from-the-uss-liberty-to-minab-betrayal-and-indifference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/adventure\/from-the-uss-liberty-to-minab-betrayal-and-indifference\/","title":{"rendered":"From the USS Liberty to Minab: Betrayal and Indifference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Self-deception as an American art form<\/h2>\n\n\n
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A press briefing, Imminent Threat – or Ruse? Intel on Iran a Flashback to Iraq?, was organized by former career CIA officer Ray McGovern and presented at the National Press Club on March 26th. McGovern closed the event with a quote from the late civil rights activist Rabbi Abraham Heschel, \u201cWhen injustice occurs, we are not all guilty but we are all responsible. Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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The ten speakers, all military veterans and\/or intelligence professionals, were far from indifferent. For over five and a half hours they emphatically warned that America was duplicating the invasion of Iraq, thus far the most tragic foreign policy disaster since Vietnam. A new contender is in the works, engineered by many of the same vested interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presenters brought a wide range of personal experiences encompassing the Cold War, Vietnam, the 1967 Six-Day War in the Middle East, the Forever Wars and Gaza. Their revelations were profoundly disturbing. Not least because of what should be well-known by the public but isn\u2019t, and of incidents indicating a complete collapse of American ideals as most understand them. Due to the presentation\u2019s length, this writeup is limited to overall themes and a few of many unsettling examples of grotesque deceptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picking a dominant theme, betrayal does nicely. Betrayal of Americans, of those in foreign nations we professed to help, and of those serving in American military now at severe risk. The danger the military faces is amplified by a mainstream media that fails to properly enlighten the public. An American presidency soaked in breathtaking corruption, recently underscored by insider trading apparently tipped to the cha-cha of President Trump\u2019s bewildering statements on Iran, meshes easily with a Secretary of War with an end of times theology and with a foreign power and its American proxies that have long influenced the White House, Congress and the press.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Speakers explored the creation of the \u201cother\u201d as a motive to go to war, cultivated by politicians and greased by companies that profit. It\u2019s a long tradition. As Communism faded it fell to Muslims to personify “the other\u201d, continuing the reordering of national spending priorities to first and foremost support military ventures, including nearly 800 military bases in over 80 countries for forward deployment, while shirking desperate needs like health care, education and infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The program, presented by the Eisenhower Media Network, can be found on YouTube and below. About fifty minutes in one of the few remaining survivors of Israel\u2019s attack on the USS Liberty during the 1967 Six-Day War provides a riveting account of the struggle to survive a catastrophe at sea. It is a damning failure of journalism that such accurate eye-witness accounts, initially suppressed by shocking government coverup, are largely unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n