We need to educate ourselves about the first Crusaders. Their efforts to repel the first wave and second waves of Muslims, can teach us to DEFEND CHRISTIANITY and THE REST OF THE WORLD, [WHO WANT TO JOIN US], for their Third Wave. Then we need set up a plan for posterity.

Who’s game? I AM.

http://www.jstor.org/pss/2863610

A Review of “Simon Lloyd’s, ‘English Society and the Crusade, 1216 – 1307′. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv, 329.”
…”Lloyd has chosen an important topic, and he has given it the treatment it deserves. Behind political, military and diplomatic initiatives lies some kind of structure, some complex of administrative, financial, and personal arrangements. When we look at the crusades in the thirteenth century – with the first blush of success long gone – though never allowed to be forgotten – we are especially concerned with these questions: How did the idealogues prepare a realm to send out its men? How did crusaders get ready for their great adventure?… ‘