Outrage after Obama compares ISIS to the Crusades in comments at National Prayer Breakfast

[TheKentuckian]

131. It isn't pretending it is not conflating proximity with effect.

I'd say that at this point it is no contest that the Crusades have more impact on more lives and the very shapes of our societies, religions, cultures, and even genetics than these bands of marauders in the middle east we are talking about today.

Typically, if you are aware of an event the further back in time it is the more important it is and just because an event occurs in the present doesn't change it's impact footprint. In 2,000 years it is most probable that the Crusades will still be of more historical importance. Maybe not but most likely.

The present is nothing but the fruits of the past and the future is nothing but what we make of it from here.

All of this is probably beside the point anyway and our hand in predictably setting up just such fucks to assemble and cause discord is hardly ancient history, Operation Enduring Clusterfuck rocks on.
I think that is what causes all the anger and teeth gnashing is knowing our own stupid fuck policies grew this mess and fear our response will just ramp up up the crazy but wanting that visceral resolution, or to live up to "you broke it, you bought it", or paternal hero syndrome, or whatever is too attractive not to keep trying to roll the dice.