Stop, or I’ll jehad !
Terrorists by Another Name: The Barbary Pirates
By Richard Lei, October 15, 2001
They considered us infidels — and easy targets. They committed atrocious acts against civilians. They provoked war with America.
“They are odious for the constant violation of the laws of nations and humanity,” as one writer put it. We saw them as bloodthirsty fanatics, sanctioned by Islamic despots, and we believed their behavior threatened the future of the modern world.
Thus the president found it necessary to launch America’s first military campaign against state-sponsored terrorists. Except he didn’t call them that, because 200 years ago, everyone called terrorists by another name: pirates.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2001/10/15/terrorists-by-another-name-the-barbary-pirates/af7e4c90-b56c-4e0c-95ea-f079b889a96f/
America’s First Response to Terrorism: - The Barbary Pirates and the Tripolitan War of 1801
MILITARY REVIEW - November-December 2005
Colonel Bradley E. Smith, U.S. Army
There is but one language which can be held to these people, and this is terror.—General William Eaton, 1799
It is as true today as it was over 200 years ago that the. United States could win an overwhelming military victory and yet fail to secure a lasting peace...
https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=461436
Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates | U.S. First Islamic Confrontation - City Journal
America’s first confrontation with the Islamic world helped forge a new nation’s character.
Christopher Hitchens
Spring 2007
https://www.city-journal.org/html/jefferson-versus-muslim-pirates-13013.html