[Patriot28]

No joke. Don't you wish those campaigns had a different ending.

[Nuc1]

"Don't you wish those campaigns had a different ending."

Yes. It is possible that the world would have been a better place had the Crusades been successful. Yet, my experience tells me that the absolute amount of evil in the world seems to stay the same. Thus, if we had cleaned up the middle east in the past, modern evil would just come from a different direction. Conservation of evil as it were. My previous comment wasn't intended as a joke or as derision, I was commenting that it was sad that the west didn't continue. It is possible that pushing islam back would have made the present much more peaceful.