The crusades are now no more than excuses for looting , murder and rapine .
十字军现在不再为抢劫谋杀和掠夺而申辩。
It does not help that britain and other european former imperial powers have developed a blithe amnesia about their own rapine past ; nor that japan cannot face making a fulsome apology for its brutal abuse of china during an occupation , ending in 1945 , that killed millions .
