On November 26, 1095 Pope Urban II launched the Christian Crusades.  His goal was to spread Christianity to the Middle East.  

He was so certain that God was behind the Crusades that his warriors placed their faith in the Old Testament, specifically in the biblical account of ancient Jericho.  The soldiers marched around the walls of Jericho.  When they blew their trumpets the walls of Jericho, aided by the supernatural assistance of God, came tumbling down.

When the Crusaders marched around the walls of Jerusalem and blew their trumpets, they fully expected the supernatural would assist them and the walls would immediately come tumbling down.  When this did not happen they barged into Jerusalem, slaughtering the city's every inhabitant and piling the bodies one atop the other.

On March 20, 2003 George Bush launched the Iraq War, which soon became a modern Middle East crusade to deliver democracy and freedom.