To: bigbob
Wasn’t the US Navy largely founded to go to “Stop Jihad Now” in the Mediterranean?
2 posted on
07/25/2010 5:25:18 PM PDT by
Paladin2
To: Paladin2
Good point - the muslims gave the us the United States Marine Corps.
19 posted on
07/25/2010 5:52:01 PM PDT by
skeeter
To: Paladin2
Wasn’t the US Navy largely founded to go to “Stop Jihad Now” in the Mediterranean?>>>>>
“To the shores of Tripoli” they were sent to stop the Barbary Pirates and to stop having to pay tribute to them
35 posted on
07/25/2010 7:19:01 PM PDT by
dennisw
(History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid - Gen Eisenhower)
To: Paladin2
Wasn’t the US Navy largely founded to go to “Stop Jihad Now” in the Mediterranean? I like to think of "...to the shores of Tripoli in the Marine Corps anthem...
Cheers!
36 posted on
07/25/2010 8:09:15 PM PDT by
grey_whiskers
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