This is sad. So much history is erased. So much of someone else's history that is. Other Christians don't see it as their problem.
Mankind is still to this day dealing with hatred, greed, jealousy and all of the vices that corrupt the human heart and soul. The nature of mankind is such that oneness can never happen. Someone always wants to take more because his soul is restless. Yet people fail to realize that the one who has given all for Christ is the wealthiest of all of them.
I just hope that Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox can together recognize that a threat to one is also a threat to the other. They have more in common than not. Pope Benedict XVI aurally sees what has happened in Bosnia and Kosovo. He sees how hungry Islam has gotten for Christian blood. He knows but stays measured in his response.
Actually, Squid, 1204 was just the FIRST betrayal of the Christian East by the West, there have been many betrayals since then. And each time, Eastern Christians have naively gone into it with faith that their Western brothers will stand by them and each time, they have gotten sold out.
Today's Christians in Kosovo and the Christians in Iraq, are just two of the most recent examples of this kind of betrayal. The WWII genocide of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies are another one. The genocide and ethnic cleansing of Greeks from Asia Minor and from Cyprus, with the acceptance (enforcement) of Western Powers. One could go on and on.
Point is that this isn't just "an 800 year old grudge". Eastern Christians have been the traditional buffer between the West and Islam, and that was a role that they accepted as their fate. But what they could not and cannot accept is the idea that they are being used as nothing more than "pawns" and "bargaining chips" to the West, to be routinely sacrificed for Western economic interests while we in the West still proclaim we are "doing God's Work" -- the hypocrisy of that mindset is just too much to bear without bitterness.