Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker on Syria and the US Middle East Policy Under Obama

Watch it Barack. Be careful who you trust in the Middle East. Seymour Hersh thinks aloud in New Yorker about Syria and the policy of the new administration. I wouldn't trust a single word of this article. Here is how it ends:

The White House has tough diplomatic choices to make in the next few months. Assad has told the Obama Administration that his nation can ease the American withdrawal in Iraq. Syria also can help the U.S. engage with Iran, and the Iranians, in turn, could become an ally in neighboring Afghanistan, as the Obama Administration struggles to deal with the Taliban threat and its deepening involvement in that country—and to maintain its long-standing commitment to the well-being of Israel. Each of these scenarios has potential downsides. Resolving all of them will be formidable, and will involve sophisticated and intelligent diplomacy—the kind of diplomacy that disappeared during the past eight years, and that the Obama team has to prove it possesses.