[Truthsayer20]

"...and in the case of the Crusades to lend assistance to fellow Christians in the East who found themselves under a similar threat..."

It seems Mr. Woods is also quilty of historical revisionism despite getting many of the facts correct. Western Christians stabbed the Byzantium in the back during the Crusades, for example, with the ransacking of Constantinople from which the city never really recovered.

[Cronos]

That was in the 4th Crusade and it was twisted by the Doge of Venice who made the Crusaders attack Constantinople (could it be because the Doge had had his eyes gouged out by the Byzantines?)

And the Crusaders had been pretty much treated like country bumpkins by the Byzantines who played, well, Byzantine politics with them.