Thursday, January 31, 2008

The Fallacy of Grievance-based Terrorism

The article The Fallacy of Grievance-based Terrorism goes into detail of what happened to American AFTER the revolution. While the Revolution solved the ground war in America, the Barbary Wars from the late 1700's into the early 1800's all of the American President's had to deal with the Islamic pirates that terrorized the open seas. Here is the clincher to the article:

"The Barbary conflict was the beginning of continuous U.S. interaction with the Muslim Near and Middle East. While Jefferson and Madison believed that a continuous U.S. military presence in the Mediterranean was necessary to protect U.S. national interests, in 1831, President Andrew Jackson secured a treaty of amity and free trade with the Ottoman Empire leading the secretary of the navy to report seven years later that it was no longer necessary to keep a U.S. fleet in the Mediterranean.[18] Three years after Washington withdrew the squadron, Ottoman privateers began raiding U.S. shipping, forcing the reconstitution of the fleet after the U.S. Civil War."

So, what do you think President Bush is doing? What do you think the potential Presidential candidates will be promising? What do the American people think, if they understand what we're up against, and will they do anything?

Only time will tell, but I think the American people will not be too concerned about it, to our peril.

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