Jeffrey Sachs

You can find it online, but you can't find it in the mainstream media because it's not discussed. But it was a so-called presidential finding that the CIA should work with Turkey, with Saudi Arabia, with others to overthrow the government of Syria. So that was the plan. We went to war. We had... This is what led to Benghazi, correct? Benghazi is Libya. So, Libya... I understand.

You can find it online, but you can't find it in the mainstream media because it's not discussed. But it was a so-called presidential finding that the CIA should work with Turkey, with Saudi Arabia, with others to overthrow the government of Syria. So that was the plan. We went to war. We had... This is what led to Benghazi, correct? Benghazi is Libya. So, Libya... I understand.

You can find it online, but you can't find it in the mainstream media because it's not discussed. But it was a so-called presidential finding that the CIA should work with Turkey, with Saudi Arabia, with others to overthrow the government of Syria. So that was the plan. We went to war. We had... This is what led to Benghazi, correct? Benghazi is Libya. So, Libya... I understand.

Yes, but it was the same time in 2011.

Yes, but it was the same time in 2011.

Yes, but it was the same time in 2011.

If you say it that way, one of the first things was to establish a rat line, so-called, from Libya to Syria. Absolutely. And Seymour Hersh wrote a terrific piece explaining all of that.

If you say it that way, one of the first things was to establish a rat line, so-called, from Libya to Syria. Absolutely. And Seymour Hersh wrote a terrific piece explaining all of that.

If you say it that way, one of the first things was to establish a rat line, so-called, from Libya to Syria. Absolutely. And Seymour Hersh wrote a terrific piece explaining all of that.

No, none of this is explained, of course. It's none of the public's business. This is our business. We're the war machine. You stay out of this. So none of this is explained. Interestingly, the whole Syrian operation... I think I counted right that the New York Times mentioned Operation Timber Sycamore, I think three times in the 2010s.

No, none of this is explained, of course. It's none of the public's business. This is our business. We're the war machine. You stay out of this. So none of this is explained. Interestingly, the whole Syrian operation... I think I counted right that the New York Times mentioned Operation Timber Sycamore, I think three times in the 2010s.

No, none of this is explained, of course. It's none of the public's business. This is our business. We're the war machine. You stay out of this. So none of this is explained. Interestingly, the whole Syrian operation... I think I counted right that the New York Times mentioned Operation Timber Sycamore, I think three times in the 2010s.

So a war that cost billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives, CIA operation, covert action, links with Libya, never explained, never discussed. And even when the government falls last week, no background given, you know, we're supposed to have amnesia. We're not supposed to understand that what happens is the result of long-term plans that have been pretty disastrous.

So a war that cost billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives, CIA operation, covert action, links with Libya, never explained, never discussed. And even when the government falls last week, no background given, you know, we're supposed to have amnesia. We're not supposed to understand that what happens is the result of long-term plans that have been pretty disastrous.

So a war that cost billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives, CIA operation, covert action, links with Libya, never explained, never discussed. And even when the government falls last week, no background given, you know, we're supposed to have amnesia. We're not supposed to understand that what happens is the result of long-term plans that have been pretty disastrous.

And by the way, as I've said, Israel has driven so many American wars, and we say, absolutely, yes, that's our greatest ally. These have been at huge cost to the United States, cost of trillions of dollars, cost geopolitically, but somehow... We gave away our foreign policy to Israel years and years ago, and it's been absolutely devastating.

And by the way, as I've said, Israel has driven so many American wars, and we say, absolutely, yes, that's our greatest ally. These have been at huge cost to the United States, cost of trillions of dollars, cost geopolitically, but somehow... We gave away our foreign policy to Israel years and years ago, and it's been absolutely devastating.

And by the way, as I've said, Israel has driven so many American wars, and we say, absolutely, yes, that's our greatest ally. These have been at huge cost to the United States, cost of trillions of dollars, cost geopolitically, but somehow... We gave away our foreign policy to Israel years and years ago, and it's been absolutely devastating.

And it's interesting to go back and watch Netanyahu speak to the American people. Go look at a video clip of 2001, 2002. In 2002, in October, he comes and testifies in the Senate. And there's a nice clip of him promising how wonderful the war in Iraq is going to be because Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. He says 100 percent certain complete lies, by the way.

And it's interesting to go back and watch Netanyahu speak to the American people. Go look at a video clip of 2001, 2002. In 2002, in October, he comes and testifies in the Senate. And there's a nice clip of him promising how wonderful the war in Iraq is going to be because Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. He says 100 percent certain complete lies, by the way.