[ccmay]

What's the moral of the story?

Easy. Christendom must suppress Islam in the harshest manner. The Mohammedan fiend must always have our boot on his filthy throat.

[gracex7]

Interesting article. I always wondered what we had done 'to the shores of Tripoli'.

I suppose a pacifist would denigrate Jefferson's actions by saying that 9-11 never would have happened if we had just rolled over and surrendered all those years ago. (I noticed that they refered to themselves as "mujahiddin", which is the same name the Afghanis used who fought against the Soviet invasion.)