Why the ‘Failed’ Crusades Still Inspire
Were the Crusades a glorious and heroic venture, or were they a
shameful and disastrous failure?
This is an important question with important ramifications: If, for
example, the Crusades were nothing more than epic defeats, as many are
fond of insisting, what on earth should anyone find inspiring about
them?
To be brief, the answer comes down to numbers: the Crusaders lost, and
the Muslims won, ultimately because of numbers—large Muslim
numbers against small Christian numbers.
And what caused this imbalance? Simple, unlike the cold logic that
fueled history’s Muslim conquests, the Christian desire to take and hold
the Holy Land was motivated by purely idealistic reasons, and these
ultimately proved too impractical to sustain.
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