New Yorker’s Hersh sparks anger, puzzlement with remarks on military ‘crusaders’
23rd January 2011
In a speech this week in Doha, Qatar, Hersh advanced the notion that U.S. military forces are directed and dominated by Christian fundamentalist “crusaders” bent on changing “mosques into cathedrals.”
Oh, would that it were true. But this delusion is like unto the super-sophisticated gear that the CIA uses in the Bourne movies: A left-wing fantasy. We should be so lucky.