[Palter]

And the book traces the roots of many modern crises: Britain, trying to create buffer zones against Russia, occupies Afghanistan and considers seizing Baghdad, where a British diplomat blithely proclaims that Sunnis and Shiites “could always be played off against each other.”

[x]

That is one way to sell a book.

But if the Crimean War matters, where's the fun in being a "Crimean War buff"?

[Seizethecarp]

Fascinating parallels...but some differences.

“The Last Crusade” by Russia against the Ottomans...with the Brits defending Muslim control of Jerusalem by the Ottomans against the Orthodox Christian Russians!

[Elendur]

this article is breathtaking, even for the NY Times!

“The war itself was initiated when religious squabbles over holy places in the Ottoman towns of Jerusalem and Bethlehem prompted Russia to march troops into...”

“It inflamed Russia’s rivalry with the Ottoman Empire over the Balkans, “

...totally ignoring the hundreds of years of invasions by the “Ottoman Empire” (MUSLIM CALIPHATE).
Jerusalem is merely an “Ottoman town”, because they conquered it fair and square?

and what about the 70,000 brave Serbs who died defending Kosovo? or the Valiant Polish King who saved Vienna,
from becoming another “Ottoman town”?

if not for them (and the courage of Russian Orthodox soldiers too), Europe could well have become “Eurabia”, long ago. And American would never have been founded as a Christian Nation.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2741122/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2741171/posts?page=15#15

[tanuki]

Just ordered the book on kindle. Thanks for the heads-up!

[ADemocratNoMore]

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