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From: "Prudence L. Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> You're right about that, but I just can't see where the term "good guy" is
> justified. There is a rather large volume on the life of Vlad, and he was
> scary to say the least. It is regrettable, but military leaders and rulers
> (and everyone else in a position of power) have never allowed the predicament
> of the masses to affect their own good times. Prudy
Based on what I've read of his life, Vlad seems to have been considered a good
Christian, at least by his own
standards and the accepted standards of the era. Indeed, he was cast in a sort of
'Defender of the Faith'
against the Turks, a role other rulers threatened by the Turks were very glad he took
on, because then they
didn't have to take any risks in trying to repel the Turkish invasion.
He basically was left to face the Turks on his own, without any help from others who
were supposedly his
allies, and definitely with no help from the Roman church...and considering how cruel
the Turks in their own
turn could be, it is hardly surprising that Vlad used the tactics that he did...crude
though it may have been,
it WAS effective psychological warfare. The proof is in the fact that we today
remember Vlad, but can't name
his fellow Christian rulers who either fought the Turks with half-hearted measures, or
didn't even bother to
try.
June
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