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QJM 2006 99(1):67-68; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hci151
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Crusades and mirages

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He is, without a doubt, the most powerful man in the Western world. His friends regard him as courteous and moderate. His enemies see him as ‘a combination of Christian piety, xenophobia and imperialistic arrogance’, in the words of one commentator. He is possessed by a passionate and single-minded determination: to end the ceaseless conflict in the Middle East once and for all. By doing so, he believes, he can not only bring peace to that region, but also extirpate the danger that Islamic fanaticism represents to innocent Westerners. To that end, he brings together an unprecedented multinational force, drawn from most of the Western . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John Launer


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