Christophe wrote:There is no oil in Pakistan anyway ... and it is not very interesting strategically I think ...In fact, the crusade was a war of conquest disguised as a campaign against heresy.
You could very well transpose it now:In fact, the crusade was a war of conquest disguised as a campaign against terrorism.
So Bush, the last crusader?
... well if we believe the link I give on Wiki ...
This is the type of situation where a "single man" can very quickly become the hostage of a situation, especially when we remember that he was himself the victim of an attack ...> then had "forgiven".
Wikipedia wrote:Several theses have been formulated on a possible sponsor. According to some sources [...] because of the Turkish nationality of Mehmet Ali Ağca think that radical Islamists could be at the origin of this attack, this one being against the visit of the Pope in Turkey, seeing in him the Commander of the Crusades,
(but I'm not saying that it was, that's just what troubled me ... other sources talk about the mafia or the intelligence services of the Russian army)
... Anyway: 9/11 twenty years later! Breathtaking how far back we have to go, right?
... after the "forgiveness" of the 1981 attack, this biblical notion, however central, would seem to have itself been de facto relegated to the subject of September 11, 2001 ... Definitely strange ... But everyone has to form their opinion.