Quote (Many_Names @ Apr 30 2024 06:05am)
Our founding fathers proudly hosted the musselmen representative in the white house for an iftar dinner, honoring the beylik of tunis and even securing local 'concubines' for the visit of sidi soliman mellimelli
...who promised that the barbary pirates would take american men as hostages and have a knife in each hand and another in their teeth, and jefferson sent the USS constitution to blockade Tripoli and bombard their ports, bludgeoning them into submission
of course this historical parallel isn't too precise, considering that incident where Captain Somers loaded the USS Intrepid with explosives and sent it on a suicide bombing mission against the barbary fleet, only to get detonated before he reached the target, that or he blew himself up before they could be captured