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64 posted on 03/12/2006 10:09:04 PM PST by Antoninus (The only reason you're alive today is because your parents were pro-life.)

67 posted on 03/13/2006 8:19:52 AM PST by DariusBane (I do not separate people, as do the narrow-minded, into Greeks and barbarians.)

I love two word replies because they do so much to create a thesis and defend it, as I defended my thesis in subsequent posts. However IF, and I emphasis IF (because it is very difficult for me to respond to your challenge to my thesis) you are having a knee jerk conservative response, Arabs bad, Crusades good, then we do have a disagreement. The times of the crusades were very complicated politically, in fact they were byzantine in their complexities. Factions upon factions. But if you are arguing that the fourth crusade did not bring about a 200 year decline to the empire you are not studying your history. Lets do better than "uh no".

68 posted on 03/13/2006 8:26:01 AM PST by DariusBane (I do not separate people, as do the narrow-minded, into Greeks and barbarians.)