MORSE/SCHMORCHE
I care not what Rick Schmorche says. His pathetic attempts to justify the Crusades as justified retaliation for Muslim incursions is naive at best and more likely disingenuous. Marauding Christians treated Muslims and Jews with great cruelty, fed by the same religious zealotry that fed the Muslim responses. Forget not the great power plays made between the various European kings and the Vatican. This was oppurtunistic conquest for both east and west and no high ground is available for the claiming. Hypocrites on both sides be damned.