The sound quality sucks in this video so turn your speakers up.

Faiz Shakir of Think Progress interviews Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh, who reveals that Vice President Cheney had planned to put US Navy Seals in Iranian PT boats in the Strait of Hormuz to provoke a war with other US vessels in a similar fashion to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.

Hersh states: “There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up.”

Being the world’s only superpower comes with some perks - no one ever fucks with you - but that can also be a curse when maintaining your status depends on waging perpetual wars against indefensible nations. If you can’t get them to attack you, then you just have to attack yourself. US foreign policy is outright terrorism and “false flag operations” are a key part of that policy.

As if carrying out a “false flag operation” wasn’t easy enough, the planning, execution, and scapegoating is all funded by American taxpayers who then fit the bill for the upcoming war itself and volunteer themselves to be slaughtered in it as well.

h/t AlterNet