Nuts or fine investigative reporting? I don't know.

Reports of an imminent strike on Iran with tactical nukes have shown up recently...I'd be more sceptical about it if it wasn't Seymour Hersh doing the reporting. In fact I am still sceptical, even though Hersh is one of the best journalists there has ever been. I read his report on the My Lai massacre last week and its an amazing piece of reporting. What really struck me about it was the fact that around half of the soldiers involved, as they were machine gunning women and children and old men, didn't realize they were doing anything wrong. One of them said afterwards; "I thought that was what war was." It was one of the press reports that turned public opinion against the war and therefore helped end it. That, to me, is pretty impressive stuff.
Iran...I don't know. How am I supposed to know these things? It fits with the military ideology of the neo-cons to go for a military strike. America's defense policy at the moment is focussed on preserving their position as the world's pre-eminent power; proving that they can fight more than one war simultaneously and preventing Iran's economic development and, incidentally, their nuclear plans would make sense from this point of view. If it wasn't for the disaster in Iraq, I would have no doubt that they'd hit Iran.
But with nukes? Well...Jack Straw summed it up pretty well the other day when he came on TV and said "the idea of a nuclear attack is nuts."
Yes, Jack, we know it is. That's what worries us.