THIS IS BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE AFTER
Posted on 04/11/2009 10:30:21 AM PDT by NoCmpromiz
THE opening stanza of the Marine Corps hymn is: "From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, we fight our country's battles in the air, on land and sea."
"To the shores of Tripoli" refers to the Marine role in Thomas Jefferson's war against the Barbary pirates. The "Barbary coast" was a collection of Muslim mini-states stretching from present day Algeria to present day Libya. The principal source of revenue for the Barbary states was attacking shipping in the Mediterranean, stealing cargoes, and holding the crews for ransom or selling them into slavery.
The European powers of the day thought it cheaper to pay tribute to the Barbary states.
When he became president in 1801, Jefferson refused Tripoli's demands for an immediate payment of $225,000.
President Jefferson dispatched naval forces to the Mediterranean, and sent one of the most remarkable of American heroes, William Eaton, to Egypt to raise an army to attack Tripoli.
American naval forces commanded by Comm. Edward Preble and Capt. Stephen Decatur had successes against the other Barbary states. In 1805, President Jefferson told Congress the threat posed by the Barbary pirates was at an end.
Seizures of U.S.-flagged ships on the high seas have been few and far between since Jefferson's time, thanks largely to his forceful response - until last week, when Somali pirates seized the aid ship Maersk Alabama. The crew recaptured it, but at this writing, the surviving pirates still hold the ship's captain.
The only effective way to deal with pirates is to kill them, as Thomas Jefferson did with the Barbary pirates.
The U.S. military has plans for dealing with the pirates, which need only the President's approval to be put into action.
The crew of the Maersk Alabama has passed its test. Will President Obama pass his?
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The only people King Ray-Ray wants to be TOUGH on is AMERICANS.
You have to know what to do before you can take the first step. What do you want to bet that another pirate attack will take place before he does anything?
Ahh the Kenyan clown will wait untill this resolves itself then a couple bombs on the shore for show.
Looks like the pirates are gonna KICK our A$$!
THIS IS BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE AFTER
I'm not so sure there will be another one to soon. I'm sure that the Marxist Pig has given the Navy orders to protect US ships around this area now since this situation has unfolded into an embarrassment for him.
What ever we do now is too late to change the perception that our other more dangerous enemies have about us. Even if we end up killing the pirates and go on to bomb Somalia the Al Qaeda terrorists, the Taliban terrorists, the Iranian terrorist regime, the North Korean communist regime, etc... know that Obama is the weakest President ever and they are going to take full advantage of this and cause us a lot of harm.
This is the big picture that we need to look at and in this big picture we have messed it up very badly.
No, I don’t think Obama needs to get tough on pirates — especially not the pirates that the rest of the world has been *paying ransom to* for several years. Those other countries created the problem by continuing to pay them off. So, let those other countries, with those many other ships, take care of it themselves.
Let’s get the captain and then *get out of there* and let the rest of those countries wallow in their own problems — of their own making — that they’ve been subsidizing for several years now (and we haven’t been doing that... LOL...)
Hence...Barry is damn if he does and damn if he doesn't.
If he acts like a man...he insults islam and its Prophet. If he doesn't act strongly and decisively (and it is already too late for that), he will continue to get sand kicked in his face.
Jimmah didn't have it nearly so bad.
We need background checks on the purchasers of small, fast boats. Maybe a 10 day waiting period. Capacity limits on the size or the engines, no top speeds over 10 knots. Cut out the boatshow loopehole...............
He twisted his long hair and beard in pigtails and he was known to tie colored ribbons on the ends. During battle he put lit slow burning hemp cord under his hat near his ears that would smoke and envelop him in a cloud. To add to his menacing appearance he also wore several pistols (as much as six) along with his knives and cutlass at his waist.
Momhamud was probably a pirate too.
If these Muslim pirates aren’t careful, they are going to find themselves on the business end of a strongly worded letter.
Exactly right. Obama, like all Democrats, is constantly talking about “fighting” for Americans. Except that he never wants to fight against people who are actually trying to kill us.
This should be an easy triangulation for Obama. he could get a big leg up on his reelection if he took serious action against the pirates. That he refuses to do so tends to indicate that he sympathizes with them.
Yea, it's not like we have any need for our ships to be passing through that patch of ocean anyway.
well so far the French have used their special forces to rescue their citizens and killed the pirates
phony is more concerned about his homo, cross dressing Easter egg hunt
the man makes me sick and even my mother in law who has voted Dem all her life and voted for this idiot has now said he is an idiot who knows nothing of what he is doing
We can take care of our own ships... let the rest of the world take care of the problem that they have been “supporting” for years now...
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