9th Crusade

When Christians launched the 1st of 8 crusades around the year 1000 A.D., they utilized only single horsepower and single or double masted ships. Today, 1000 years later, around 2000 A.D., a 9th Crusade is underway globally to rid the world of Islamic and other ideologically driven terrorists. Horsepower available since the Medieval Crusades had dramatically increased. An Essex class aircraft carrier can cruise the seas under 150,000 horsepower. To the infidels in the millennium past, happiness in the next world trumped earthly satisfaction; their ideology today has not changed. 1000 years ago, suicide as a tactic did not exist; today suicide as a tactic is sui generis. To quote a Nobel prize laureate, " terror is stronger than the sum of anyone’s happiness Victory, therefore, in this new war, depends upon the quality of the combatants and the legitimacy of their cause. One true God cannot serve two competing mortal Crusades, nor can two conflicting human allegiances serve the same God.