No more appeasement: Joseph Farah tells how Thomas Jefferson ended Islamic terrorism

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Tuesday, April 27, 2004 | Joseph Farah

[RippleFire]

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[flydye45]

This talk of Hawkish Jefferson is wrong. In "John Adams", that recent bestseller, Jefferson opposed the creation of an American navy. Why? Adams was using it as a club to force Jefferson's beloved French from doing the same thing as the Barbary Pirates (see the XYZ Affair). It seems revolutionaries in silks can extort Americans, but rag heads cannot.

Since reading Adams, I have had a great deal of disenchantment with Jefferson who stands reveled as a sexual harasser, a dilettante, a poor administrator (he died in debt), a hypocrite, and soft of the French. But I suppose he had his good points.

[spunkets]

Bump for Jefferson the neocon.

[The Mayor]

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[veronica]

Fascinating. Great post, as always. :)

[veronica]

Bump for Jefferson the neocon...

Jefferson was Jewish? Who knew? ;)

[spunkets]

Jefferson knew the difference between foreign entanglements and national security bump.

[macrahanish #1]

Judging by the "crowds" they are drawing to PNC Park, they might not be the Pittsburgh Pirates much longer.

[Publius6961]

Jefferson inquired of his European hosts how they dealt with the problem. He was stunned to find out that France and England both paid tribute to the fiends – who would, in turn, use the money to expand their own armada, buy more weaponry, hijack more commercial ships, enslave more innocent civilians and demand greater ransom.

Nothing has changed all that much, has it?

The only thing missing from the article is the famous statement made in Congress during discussions about how to solve the problem. And it is as applicable today as ever:

"Millions for defense. Not one cent for tribute!"

[Gritty]

Today, 200 years later, we are now re-engaged fully in the fight against the Muslim Pirates, which was only temporarily suspended by Treaty in 1805.

The Marines, today as then, are in the lead elements.

[Sender]

Great post, I agree with all you said. Americans sometimes don't see the big picture, the long fight over centuries and generations. We are all too focused on our own lives and what we plan to do this year, this weekend etc.

Islam never sleeps. One quarter of the human race and growing. Coming soon to a mosque near you.

[old-ager]

> complete destruction of non-Islamic all people.

[old-ager]

> complete destruction of non-Islamic all people.

[Terriergal]

this was an excellent article. I caught it in the WA times the other week while out of town and hoped someone had posted it! thanks!

[Terriergal]

PING!

[MacDorcha]

thanks for the link... long time terrier, where ya been?

[CDHart]

Very good article -- I took history but I don't recall hearing this, at least from this perspective. Thanks for the post.

Carolyn

[Eternal_Bear]

Actually Algerian piracy didn't end until the French Army invaded and occupied Algeria in 1830. The Brits attacked Algiers in 1816 but they just started up again. BTW, Jefferson wrecked the American Navy with such drastic budget cuts that we didn't have a single ship of the line (battleship) at the start of the War of 1812. He thought harbor gunboats would be good enough.

[patriot_wes]

Like knowing that a central bank would be the death of our republican experimant the founders seemed to have the right answers about a lot of things. Maybe we should take a lesson from them.