Posted on 05/29/2006 9:22:33 PM PDT by neverdem
And as I recall 9-11-01 was also a Tuesday!
Good post!
Tuesdays are not good, in general.
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Tuesday - named after Tiu, one of the German gods of war.
All the same, Islam is *not* a religion of peace. It's interesting that the left forgets Muslims have done atrocities too.
6-6-06 falls on a Tuesday. Figures.
Hey i am bit on the left and i cant stand those motherF%^&&@,
Also Tuesday 13th are bad luck days for most latin cultures.
"Liberalism" isn't the same thing as "leftist".
I live deep in the conservative south and some people around here are to the left of Karl Marx.
They just happen to go to church and believe in god.
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
Our spendthrift government waste, and huge deficits and national debt will have the same effect.
Except it is not Venetians, but Congress doing the looting.
Mohammed II only took Constantinople because he secured the services of an expert Christian gunfounder (Urban of Hungary). Urban had offered his services to Constantinople first, but they refused. IMO the Byzantines lost their city because they didn't invest in technology. In the same way, the equally decisive battle of Lepanto was only won because of investment in Naval technology.
Constantinople was sacked by an army consisting of various mercenaries, Venetians and Byzantines. The largest contingent among the troops that sacked Constantinople were themselves Byzantines sacking their own capital city.
The sack of Constantinople occurred in 1203, 250 years before Constantinople fell to the Turks. Pinning the military weakness of 1453 on an incident from 1203 is preposterous.
Most of the treasures of Constantinople were gone well before the Venetians and their allies took the city. Isaac II had looted the treasury before he left the city 8 years earlier, and his successor melted down both Catholic statuary and Orthodox icons for the gold he needed for bribes to keep his tenuous hold on power.
Very little "treasure" was hauled away from Constantinople since very little was left in a city that had been torn by civil strife and kleptocracy for at least a decade.
So is 06/06/06.....could it be...naw...
They don't forget. They actively ignore bad news. The Hue Massacre, Tet 1968 was ignored. Then they ginned up the worldwide student rebellion in May 1968. After it spilled over into Czechoslavakia with the Prague Spring, you had the The Russian Invasion of Czechoslavakia in August.
6/6/44 was a Tuesday, too.
All too often , Hollyweird present mythical history set in a vacuum. The Crusades have to be viewed in historical context.
What happened in Constaninople was unforgivable and horrible by this Christian.
But it was preceeded by EQUALLY horrific acts against Christians in the Middle East, Spain, Portugal, southern France and Italy, Sicily, other parts of Greece, Anatolia, and north Africa - ALL once Christian lands before being attacked and focibly converted to Islam.
This process is replicating itself in Nigeria, Sudan, the Phillippines and other parts of the world before our very eyes.
Unless Islam can totally purge itself of these elements, restore Hagia Sophia to Christian Orthodox control and behave as a civilized faith, renouncing CENTURIES of aggression and conquest, the only way the west can respond is with fire and sword or total capitulation. There are no other options.
A good deal of the "Treasure" looted from Constantinople was the sons and daughters of the city.
The sack of Constantinople by a supposed Crusader force was a disgrace. It helped weaken the city and set it up for later Muslims conquest.
According to a recent book on that subject, a series of incredible blunders, fed by greed, caused that action. And the Pope actually excommunicated the leaders of the Crusade when he heard what they had done. Capturing Constantinople was not the objective of the Latin Church nor of the rank and file Crusaders but was the creation of the Venetians and the Crusade's inept leaders.
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