If you were worried there wouldn't be a 2012 candidate touting the pro-Crusades platform, then today is your lucky day!
"The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical," former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) told a South Carolina audience yesterday. "And that is what the perception is by the American left who hates Christendom."
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See also Matthew Gabriel's view on this article from Modern Medieval