I was checking web stats today and saw I had visitors coming from Slate.com. They apparently did a blog roundup on the new Bin Laden tape, and they excerpted my agitated suggestion that we oblige OBL on his accusation that the pope wants a new crusade:
Steve Skojec says bring it on: “If you want a new crusade, Bin Laden, go ahead and go after the pope. Ever hear of the Battle of Lepanto? How about Granada? Vienna? The Catholic armies of the past broke the back of the Ottoman Empire and scattered the warriors of jihad so badly they had to nurse their wounds for centuries.”
On it’s own, this quote loses some of the nuance in my original post, like the grumbling admission that Catholicism ain’t what it used to be. (I need to learn to think in soundbytes if I’m going to get quoted.) There will be no Catholic armies coming to the rescue this time, because there are no Catholic nations. I wish there were.
Hilary left a comment that summed up my sentiment rather well, in all of it’s indignant futility:
“There’s still one dwarf left who draws breath in Moria, eh?”
Pretty much. And the orc hordes are coming.
And my axe!
Baruk Khazad! Khazad Ai Menu!
I dunno–grow a fuller beard and you might look like Urban II.
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