This is a sample book, 4 chapters, looking for a publisher. Real history is about banal subjects: the preference for drinking beer over wine or water; the selection of a type of sail to escape the narrow channel of a wind-swept estuary; the adoption of a 10% tax, rather than a 1% or a 50% tax; and above all the circumcision of young, muscular men. Today's confrontation between circumcised Americans and circumcised Muslims on the Crescent that links San Diego to Bali is no accident, but the inevitable outcome or man's horrific battle with his hormones, and his destiny to dominate the globe....