Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates

[rangerrebew]

Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates
By Dave Benner on Jan 26, 2016   
 

President Thomas Jefferson’s first inaugural address articulated his philosophical manifesto: “Peace, commerce, and friendship with all nations – entangling alliances with none.” These basic maxims were stressed repeatedly by Jefferson, who cherished a commercially free country that would avert the costly European wars of the past. Optimally, Jefferson hoped to avoid foreign conflicts completely.

Jefferson had long championed the idea that conquest and imperial pursuits, which had consumed Europe for centuries, was to be avoided in America. Writing to his friend Thomas Paine in 1801, he put it this way:

    “Determined as we are to avoid, if possible, wasting the energies of our people in war and destruction, we shall avoid implicating ourselves with the powers of Europe, even in support of principles which we mean to pursue. They have so many other interests different from ours, that we must avoid being entangled in them. We believe we can enforce these principles as to ourselves by peaceable means, now that we are likely to have our public councils detached from foreign views.”[1]

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/review/jefferson-and-the-barbary-pirates/

[rangerrebew]

History is repeating itself.  The difference is THE PIRATES ARE ALREADY IN THIS COUNTRY! They are CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, Omar, Tlaib, and OAC.  The extortion is more subtle but it is there.  We see it in schools, businesses, attacks on Christianity, , attacks on Jews, Political Correctness, and illegal invasion.  Congress and the American people had better wise up.  On the other hand, maybe democrats and rinos have no interest in waking up.

[verga]

Good article, thank you