03-27-2011, 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls
The inaugural pledge of Thomas Jefferson: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations-entangling alliances with none."
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That lasted a matter of days ...
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"[Immediately] prior to Jefferson's inauguration in 1801, Congress passed naval legislation that, among other things, provided for six frigates that 'shall be officered and manned as the President of the United States may direct.' . . . In the event of a declaration of war on the United States by the Barbary powers, these ships were to 'protect our commerce & chastise their insolence ? by sinking, burning or destroying their ships & Vessels wherever you shall find them.'"[14] On Jefferson's inauguration as president in 1801, Yusuf Karamanli, the Pasha (or Bashaw) of Tripoli, demanded $225,000 from the new administration. (In 1800, Federal revenues totaled a little over $10 million.) Putting his long-held beliefs into practice, Jefferson refused the demand. Consequently, in May 1801, the Pasha declared war on the U.S., not through any formal written documents but in the customary Barbary manner of cutting down the flagstaff in front of the U.S. Consulate. Algiers and Tunis did not follow their ally in Tripoli. ..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_B...val_blo ckade
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Idealism v. Pragmatism
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