[Sybeck1]

So the Barbary pirates would have been left alone?

[weegee]

We should’ve bought off their protection as European sissies did.

[SAJ]

GMTA. First thing I thought, too.

[Martins kid]

No - I think he means that we are going to build sailing ships and go after the Barbary Pirates!!!!

[Pharmboy]

Exactly correct. Also, Washington is always quoted about his "foreign entaglements" blurb, but he was not so naive as Mr. Paul. Here is an excerpt from the White House bio of The General:

He did not infringe upon the policy making powers that he felt the Constitution gave Congress. But the determination of foreign policy became preponderantly a Presidential concern. When the French Revolution led to a major war between France and England, Washington refused to accept entirely the recommendations of either his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was pro-French, or his Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who was pro-British. Rather, he insisted upon a neutral course until the United States could grow stronger.

[hinckley buzzard]

So the Barbary pirates would have been left alone?

Not to mention the French after the XYZ affair.

This is a man who knows very little history.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

So the Barbary pirates would have been left alone?

No, Paul would have went after them just as anyone who attacks our national interests.