Replies to post #62648 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[extelecom]

Harry "angry Christianity", I would not categorize it as that.
It certainly is not exclusively the Christians that are angry about this...

[brainlessone]

its the revese: the west has always been unde seige by the middle east. the oil money gives them the potential to continue what ended in vienna in the 1500's and started in 680

it took 600 years to get constantinople

[ta_bull_rider]

Interesting analysis harry, I'll have to chew on that some. You could be right though. But lets face it, if the ME had the same power and influence as we do, you can bet they would've used that might the same way we use ours. We can split hairs over whether it would've taken 1, 2, or 10 9/11-like events to push them to war.