El Cid And the Whirlwind

 

I found a book about El Cid, who invented a new approach in warfare, sometimes called the Whirlwind. Probably 10 people will write and say they know of similar versions throughout history. The latest one is the Trump presidency, not the Kansas City Chiefs.

Nothing reveals defeat louder than crying and complaining - loudly. The standard politicians have insults too boring to repeat. The journalists are revealing their anger and frustration, surely a sign of defeat. 

The vast numbers of mainline denomination chiefs have nowhere to go, because their thinly disguised socialism is devouring their mansions, their assistants to the presidents, and their deluxe trips.

American Thinker - The Cid

Charlton Heston starred in El Cid - the honorific title from Arabic - The Lord.

Thus Are Moors Defeated!’ The Battle of Cuarte

By Raymond Ibrahim

Today in history, on October 21, 1094, a small force of Christian knights destroyed a massive Muslim horde in Spain, where the Jihad and Reconquista had been raging.

Some years earlier, the Almoravids, a North African group committed to jihadist teaching and led by the emir Yusuf bin Tashfin, began to pour into Spain to aid their Islamic counterparts, the Moors, who had suffered several significant defeats to the Christians in recent years...  

For the full story of the Cid -- as well as several other Christian heroes who stood against Islamic jihad -- see the author’s Defenders of the West, from which the above account was excerpted.  Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, and a Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

GJ - I ordered it after reading the article.