Don't let's forget that these wars were also quite often religious in nature. They pitted different categories of Christian against each other, and Christians against Muslims. Arguably, the European Jews were persecuted for religious reasons, too. So let's have a mention of RELIGION too, so we can all have another fight about that.
Seriously, I don't think this will fly. There are countries, France among them, who won't accept it. Will Merkel even be able to get her own country on board?
Sometimes I think she's a bit of a twit.
At the same time, she is presumably trying appeal to her base. Again, the CDU is presumably not the Christian Democratic Union only in name. And indeed the further right you go within that party the more antagonism you'll find towards possible Turkish membership of the EU.
But this can't be done without debate, and I don't think the God squad would get a majority after open debate.
