My word. When the “Framers” were around there was no such thing as nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles or Hezbollah and Al Qaeda either.
But Thomas Jefferson sure as HELL cared about what happened on the high seas in the Mediterranean Sea. He declared war on the Barbary pirates and the Navy and Marine Corps went “to the shores of Tripoli...” The rest is history.
Evidently, you never had a lesson in history, or else you would never have made such an ignorant statement in the first place.
—But Thomas Jefferson sure as HELL cared about what happened on the high seas in the Mediterranean Sea. He declared war on the Barbary pirates and the Navy and Marine Corps went “to the shores of Tripoli...” The rest is history.—
That was because trade with Europe was being compromised by the pirates. IOW, he did it for the $$$. Not a very good reason to spend blood and treasure. At any rate, we didn’t make the same mistake until 1898, when we annexed the Phillipines, thus setting the stage for involvement in the Pacific conflict with Japan decades later. Oh, and lay off the ad hominem crap, OK.
—My word. When the “Framers” were around there was no such thing as nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles or Hezbollah and Al Qaeda either.—
1. Unless you know something most intelligence agencies around the world don’t know, there aren’t any nuclear weapons or ICBMs in Iran at this moment.
2. Hezbollah is a threat primarily to Lebanon and Israel.