Special Forces and JSOC on a Crusade Against Muslims? Not Likely

Seymour Hersh, an investigative journalist, author and contributor to The New Yorker, has accused General McCrystal and others of the Special Forces (and JSOC) community of secretly plotting crusades against Muslims.  He did this in a speech in Doha, Qatar on January 17, 2011.  (See the transcript provided by Foreign Policy).  Among his statements are nuggets such as accusing JSOC members of being members of the Knights of Malta and Opus Dei.  He says the war in Afghanistan is part of a huge secret worldwide crusade by these secret Christian organizations.  Several journalists have refuted his statements.  See "Seymour Hersh, the Knights of Malta, and me", Foreign Policy, January 21, 2011 and "Hersh rebuked on crusaders", The Washington Post, January 21, 2011.