Sorry but apparently Secretary of State Clinton didn't think my solution will work in the 21st century.
“...Clinton didn’t think my solution will work in the 21st century.”
Keep in mind, though, the Jefferson story wasn’t a simple one. Yes, the Bey, Dey or Pasha (of Tripoli I believe) was confronted with force, but Jefferson executed ‘plan B’ and paid tribute before his land-based force could march from Egypt, leaving them hanging. It wasn’t until the Madison administration that the US achieved some finality to the so called Barbary Pirates’ ‘reign of terror’.