Posted on 06/30/2014 5:12:13 PM PDT by equalator
Yes, I believe he got Congress to declare war on the pirates. Made eminent sense. I think I see now.
Sometime a cold war suffices. It sufficed against the Communist bloc (America then threw the advantage away, but that isn’t any comment on how well the cold war itself worked).
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