Iranian a-holes sure like to talk a lot
Barbary Pirates?! “Dr.” Jill would invite them to the White House to do a other dance.
Just do it...................FAFO..............
One of these days Alice, “TO THE MOON!”
Panic
You’d think the Iranians might remember “Operation Praying Mantis” when Reagan sank about half the Iranian navy in less than a day.
If President Jefferson had dispatched the U.S. Navy to the Mediterranean Sea and landed the Marines in Tripoli to protect Danish ships operating under the flag of Singapore transporting cargo from Asia to Europe, he would have been set on fire on the front lawn of Monticello.
The Americans and America that took care of the Babary Pirates are both gone now. They have been replaced by slackers, wokesters, cowards, communists and an invading army of beaners. The pirates are safe now.
Not Biden’s America. It’ll be buns up to the Islamics
If Iran tries, I am sure Team Biden’s response will be measured and proportional 😂😂😂😂😂.
🎶 From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli... 🎶
***how Americans handled the Barbary Pirates****
But, that was when we had a REAL PRESIDENT! Not the senile mouthpiece we see today.
If only we had “Americans” leading the country now....
Yes, but those were Americans not Obama/Biden democra5s,
This reminded me of the story that after settling the war with the 3 North African pirate kingdoms captain Decatur
was returning home, in the Mediterranean sea aboard the
American frigate Lawrence.
His lookouts noticed 3 ships approaching. They were from the
Barbary kingdoms and Capt. Decatur wasn’t taking any chances.
He ordered the guns rolled out and the call to battle stations.
As the ships closed the lead Barbary ship hailed the Lawrence.
Now the normal, accepted hail in these days was “what ship”.
and the hailed ship would respond with the ships name and usually where you were out of( the port).
But the barbary ship called out, “ where are you going”.
This was a rude way of asking a question that was none of their business.
So Captain Decatur hailed back, “ anywhere I want”.
He then continued on his way.
We need Captains like him now.
BTTT
Didn’t the Barbary Pirates capture USS Philadelphia and her crew? Stephen Decatur did regain the crew, but had set fire the the ship. So it’s not like went in there, kicked some ass and went home.
Britain had long felt that it was more economical to pay Barbary a fee to not attack their ships than actually go to war with them. But after independence our ships were not covered by Britain’s fee and so they were fair game. We did eventually get them to agree not to mess with our ships.
Iran’s threat to ‘close the Med’ directly affects several nations that do have a bit of naval power—the U.K., France, Italy, Spain, to name four. Let them take the lead. We are a world leader, for better or worse, so I have no objection to our being a part of telling Iran to not F.A.
Perhaps Brandon could stop giving them billions of dollars as a start.
When “America handled the Barbary pirates”, we didn’t have Joe Biden as President.