[Incorrigible]

I might have to pick up this book.

[denydenydeny]

Excellent post.

[k2blader]

Bump for a more in-depth later read.

[cardinal4]

The arabs love to point ot the Crusades as the reason for their angst. While I accept that atrocities were commited in the name Christianity, they happened so long ago. Christians, and the Jews as well, evolved. The Muslims still adhere to medieval hatreds to justify their medieval violence.

[skeeter]

It is the moslems who are on a crusade today.

[JoeSchem]

The Crusades were centuries ago in a far off land. The destruction of the Twin Towers was two years ago, in this land. Now, which of these events do liberals harp and harp about, and which of these events do liberals attempt to minimize and dismiss as historically irrelevant? Then liberals wonder why we consider them anti-American.

[3AngelaD]

I personally have never taxed a single brain cell feeling guilty about the Crusades. Trust Clinton to mischaracterize and screw it up. The Crusades were conducted to liberate the Holy Land from Islamic intruders: the Jews and Christians were there first. Rather than dwell on the Crusades, it wouldn't hurt to go back and read about the Battles of Lepanto and Poitoirs, the re-conquest of Granada by the Spanish and various and sundry other victories that the Europeans fought to keep Islam from overrunning their countries. This isn't exactly ancient history.

[Bullish]

Madden isn't sure how we can accomplish that. But he is sure that we won't do it by refighting the Crusades.

As it was back in the middle ages, we may not have any other choice.

Sometimes the alternative to fighting is to become either a victim or a slave. I will be neither.

[willyboyishere]

This is great---thanks for posting it. I can't believe it appears under the byline of a writer for the Newark Star-Ledger, which I always thought to be unequivocally Dem/Lib.
And it's always nice to see yet another statement by the "brilliant" x42 completely discredited.

[gitmo]

I'm pretty sure the US played an insignificant role in the Crusades.

[Incorrigible]

Bump for the morning crew

[Incorrigible]

"I might have to pick up this book."

It took forever but I finally got the book from Amazon. They extended the ship date three times. Not sure which warehouse this book was hiding in but I'm looking forward to the reading.