What will be?

[N-Man]

Oh, yes, let's apologize for something our ancestors did eight hundred years ago. That seems to be the "thing" to do these days. If the Orthodox want to hold a grudge it's up to them, but considering the church of Constantinople has something like fifty elderly Hellenes for a congregation, I doubt they can raise much of a ruckus.

Apart from immediate repercussions, the crusades also succeeded in reintroducing the Greek ancients (which had been preserved by the Arabs) to Europe, and giving the Westerners a knack for spices and other shiny things, inspiring traveling missionaries and merchants ala Marco Polo to head east. Eventually, this would all lead to the Renaissance and conquest of the known world by Europe; why, do you ask? Because of the Ottomans. :p

And thus we come full circle, and I'm off to bed. Thanks for the entertainment, you may now resume your intellectual masturbation about the impending doom of America.