The Crusades...

Last night I became aware of an American cleric, of the Episcopal church, who travels to the Middle East regularly. Whenever these trips cause him to meet a Muslim cleric, this American feels it incumbent upon himself to apologize for the Crusades.
Yup! That's right. This rectum seems to think he can represent the entire Christian world of the Middle Ages, Pope's, kings, princes and populations and tell the poor aggrieved Muslims how sorry we are about the unpleasantness our Christian ancestors brought to the Holy Land.
I seem to recall that it was ole Saladin (a Kurd, not an Arab) who invaded the Holy Land to begin with...but that aside, I cannot fathom any one who has the astounding gall to take it upon himself to do such a stupid damned thing. What an ass!