'Any city that surrendered to him peacefully, he left in peace, with its rulers in charge of collecting the tribute for the Khan. The only cities he destroyed were the ones that murdered his ambassadors and defied his authority."
Genghis Khan then offered a choice of slavery or death. Not what I would call an enlightened ruler.
"That's what the Middle East needs -- another Genghis Khan."
Really?
" Meanwhile, though, the trashing that Genghis Khan's reputation has endured over the years is exactly the trashing that George W. Bush in particular, and America as a whole, is getting right now -- no lie is too monstrous to be disbelieved, not just by our enemies, but by our "allies" in Europe."
Are you really putting Genghis and George in the same context?