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Originally Posted by August
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Originally Posted by Ishmael
Let's call it what it is. Tribute. Something the US paid to the
Barbary Pirates 200 years ago.
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Even after we kicked their butts. Go figure. |
My husband and I both just finished reading
Victory in Tripoli : How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation, by Joshua E. London. Highly recommended.
History repeats itself in a most frightening manner.