Muslims in American History: the Early Years of America

As one who has a degree in History, I find it interesting that I was rarely taught about some of these things, but it is never too late to learn something new. As you'll see from the Wall Builders web site that the Muslims of the day of our Founding Fathers had to pay them money to keep them from attacking us, but eventually American had to do something else, and I quote:

"Jefferson, determined to end the two-decades-old terrorist attacks, selected General William Eaton (Adams’ Consul to Tunis) and elevated him to the post of “U. S. Naval Agent to the Barbary States,” with the assignment to lead an American military expedition against the four terrorist nations. Using the new American Navy built under Adams, Eaton transported the U. S. Marines overseas; and when the offending nations found themselves confronted by imminent American military action, all but Tripoli backed down.

General Eaton therefore led a successful military campaign against Tripoli that freed captured seaman and crushed the terrorist forces. After four years of fighting, in 1805 Tripoli signed a treaty on America’s terms, thus ending their terrorist aggressions.

There you have it, the answer to our situation here and now. Now I know why the Marines sing "to the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli." It gives new meaning to the words