During Jefferson’s presidency, we fought the Barbary (Muslim) pirates to re-establish freedom of the seas. Jefferson was no isolationist.
[ During Jefferson’s presidency, we fought the Barbary (Muslim) pirates to re-establish freedom of the seas. Jefferson was no isolationist. ]
AND we didn’t try to bring democracy to those savages in north Africa either, we went in, broke crap, removed their capacity for piracy and LEFT.
That was about protecting American maritime interests and the rescue of hostages that formerly had been saved by the paying of ransoms. Regime change and entering of alliances to fight full scale wars on other continents was not the intent of the early govt. of the United States. “Entangling alliances” was to be avoided at all costs.