Originally Posted by
nnomad
to be fair " imagine ",,, all our holy wars were actually more about pillage and theft, ( spices, silk, gold and laterlly oil ) and the religous thing was really just a smokesscreen,, like " weapons of mass destruction " was the last time round,,,,,,,,,,,, however , it did not go down well with the locals and built up resentment over the centuries , that was not a problem hundreds of years ago when the fighting took part hundreds / thousands of miles away from these shores but as the abilities of the various dissident groups brought the results of our rampaging heroic armies neare home things became a bit different ,,,,,,,,,