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Knights of Malta
Jan. 22nd, 2011 08:11 amSeymour Hersh went to Qatar and accused the US Military of being crusaders.
It got my attention. Here's the FP article. Here's a HuffPo reaction.
I find it not entirely credible and quite dangerous. Evangelical, especially eschatological, Christianity definitely has found common cause with American neoconservatism. But anti-Western and anti-Israeli voices use Crusader rhetoric constantly in the Islamic world, so to see Hersh come up with this conspiracy is troubling. He's been right, of course, many times, and it wouldn't shock me to hear that there's a cabal of conservative Catholic officers who sometimes use that language. But I'm having trouble believing in this particular conspiracy theory.
It got my attention. Here's the FP article. Here's a HuffPo reaction.
I find it not entirely credible and quite dangerous. Evangelical, especially eschatological, Christianity definitely has found common cause with American neoconservatism. But anti-Western and anti-Israeli voices use Crusader rhetoric constantly in the Islamic world, so to see Hersh come up with this conspiracy is troubling. He's been right, of course, many times, and it wouldn't shock me to hear that there's a cabal of conservative Catholic officers who sometimes use that language. But I'm having trouble believing in this particular conspiracy theory.
