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Title: How Thomas Jefferson would have handled ISIS
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URL Source: http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/04/polit ... st-war-on-terror-barbary-isis/
Published: Mar 22, 2015
Author: VxH
Post Date: 2015-03-22 17:03:29 by VxH
Keywords: None
Views: 13864
Comments: 36

The plot sounds like something plucked from today's headlines: foreign hostages, terrorism, presidential power and American diplomatic relations with the Middle East.

But the nation's first war on terror was waged by Thomas Jefferson, not George W. Bush or Barack Obama. In place of al Qaeda or ISIS, Jefferson was fighting the Barbary pirates.

In Jefferson's time, European powers conceded to terrorism by paying annual tribute and ransom to groups like the Barbary pirates, according to Robert F. Turner, co-founder of the Center for National Security Law and professor of American Foreign Policy.

Once the American colonies gained independence from Britain, their ships were left without protection from piracy at sea. As American commerce began to increase, the Barbary states targeted American merchant vessels that traveled the seas without a strong naval defense.

Ransom payments

Jefferson believed paying ransom to terrorist organizations was a sign of weakness as a nation....

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#2. To: VxH (#0)

Jefferson is long dead, I am alive, what I would do is use tactical nukes.

BobCeleste  posted on  2015-03-22   17:13:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: BobCeleste (#2)

September 12th 2001, a day that would live in Moslem infamy. The first response to attacks on America would have been to eliminate any reason to believe that allah was or had been god. Destroy their religion, destroy their reason to wage war. That is how we destroyed Nazi Germany, destroyed the Nazi's. Then again, who really can say if it was as clear cut an attack as OBL and Al Kayda attacking us in the first place? Cue the conspiracy bashing crowd.

jeremiad  posted on  2015-03-22   18:37:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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September 12th 2001, a day that would live in Moslem infamy. The first response to attacks on America would have been to eliminate any reason to believe that allah was or had been god. Destroy their religion, destroy their reason to wage war. That is how we destroyed Nazi Germany, destroyed the Nazi's. Then again, who really can say if it was as clear cut an attack as OBL and Al Kayda attacking us in the first place? Cue the conspiracy bashing crowd.

I said it then, I'll say it now, tactical nukes are the answer. there is nothing in muslim lands that is worth one toe nail of an American kid, tactical nukes are the answer.

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