From 1801-1805, the US Navy and Marine Corps team fought the First Barbary War, also known as the Tripolitan War, against Muslim pirates in North Africa who were taking America sailors and ships hostage. You know, "From the Halls of Montezuma, to the Shores of Tripoli,..," Prior to that time, America capitulated and went along with the pirates' foreign policy; paying the ever increasing ransoms and annual tributes to gain the return of our sailors and ships. Finally, President Thomas Jefferson had had enough, we fought back and eventually defeated the pirates.
According to an article in yesterday's Wall St Journal , the Obama Administration secretly sent $400M to Iran as part of the controversial nuclear deal in order to gain the freedom of four Americans being held by the mullahs. The money was sent in foreign currency, on an unmarked plane without any fanfare. Under US law, it is illegal to pay ransom however, Administration officials deny any quid pro quo. If it was all on the "up and up", why all the secrecy? Could it be that, like so many of the other Does this sound familiar Mr President? of the Iranian Nuclear Deal, we are once again being deceived?
Hey Barack, the Barbary Pirates called, they want their foreign policy back! Sound familiar Mr President?
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