Just the kind of talk which the Guardian, which hates America and Israel about equally rabidly, would eat up with a spoon. Ignorant Americans - Israel is to blame - wonderful!
Baer may know some things about CIA incompetence, especially during the Clinton era. But that give us no reason to give a large moose evacuation about his views of the Big Picture.
He just wrote a book, after all, and now he needs to keep up his media exposure in order to sell it. And I think we know what kind of opinions get media exposure in the US and Britain. In this guy's case it sounds like there's an added factor of revenge on all those who failed to appreciate his savvy brilliance.