Yes I know the operations, also there was
urgent fury. the names seem honorable although
"infinite justice" was withdrawn as being a bit
over the top...but noms de guerre have their own
style and panache and I dont see anything
ridiculous about them really...a little like
street names etc the changable changed.

The bit about Bohemond having mentioned is worth
to expand and to reccomend a wonderful historical
novel "Count Bohemond" by Alfred Duggan.
Bohemond and Roger Guiscard (ie "the weasal"
speaking of noms de guerre :) ) were leaders
of the first crusade who passed through Constantinople
and the Emperor Alexis tried to shake them down and
then betray them to the Arabs after and there were
some bad moments...Anna Commnenena was a Byzantine
royal who wrote a history "the Alexiad" and who
fell in love with Bohemond. Bohemond ,and this
is too complex to represent in a few words and
also I am not really learned enough to fully handle it,
was a fascinating man with a subtle mind who seems to
represent a culture which is coming and which has
possiblity of development and openness as Alexis and
for that matter the lords of Islam seem to represent
cultures already moribund almost from their beginnings...
so in the poem Lepanto Mohammed says much latter in
time to his Djinns "a voice is in the mountains, in
the mountains and I know, the voice of him who
troubled us so many years ago.
It is he who knows not kismet. It is he who knows
not fate. It is Geoffrey it is Baldwin it is Godfrey
at the gate!..."

all of which to the matter of the crusades just as a
one sided romantic impression, to which add that in
de Jourdain's Memoirs of the old doge coming forward
and kneeling to receive the cross...
and we could make a preraphealite triptych!

But I do not love the current war, did not favor its
intiation and hope for its quick conclusion.
+Seraphim.