[wideawake]

This is the same Thomas Jefferson who wound up becoming embroiled militarily in North Africa.

Jefferson said many things - he also did many things.

And his actions speak louder than his words, especially when his actions were born of hard-learned experience subsequent to his utterances.

[Steel Wolf]

This is the same Thomas Jefferson who wound up becoming embroiled militarily in North Africa.

Which is an excellent point, insofar as it illustrates that avoiding or engaging in any given war should rest on the merits of that particular conflict. Not what we did in WW I I, or the Cold War, or the Revolutionary War. Nor should it revolve on what we felt a few years ago, because situations change, and rational people adapt to changing situations.