<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Paul B <<a href="mailto:pb.stuff@gmail.com">pb.stuff@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>Of course not, you're being silly. Self-defense is just. The crusades had nothing to do with self-defense.<br>
<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Incidentally, you might have better luck talking about the Reconquista, in which the Spanish were indeed fighting for their captured land. Though it happens alongside the crusades, it's seldom referred to by that term, and I certainly didn't intend it above.<br>
(It seems I'll have to be careful about precisely what I do not say)<br>
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