Did I just enter the ****ing twilight zone?
What, in the name of anything does the crusades have to do with providing safety and security for a nation? At a prayer breakfast, where the nation looks for guidance and assurance, what is a 'leader' doing when he raises the country's own black eyes, "slavery", always "slavery" like there have been no other social ills. Not how the Us raped the natives of their land, he says nothing of Mai Lai in Vietnam, the Dresden bombing; all of which are worthy of mention if the crusades and slavery are to get top billing../.
which is my way of saying why go there? The nation as been at war with Islamic terrorists since the early 1990's, all out war for 15 years that has not progressed but lost territory...why does he want the nation thinking about atrocities at all, and not "praying" for a resolution?
This isn't about atrocities or even lives lost to him, but image, the image that he was right about there not being any terrorists any more; he needs to change their image now to save his own.