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Thomas Jefferson sent the U.S. navy to fight the Barbary war (in modern Libya) because he refused to pay tribute to protect our trading routes. This quote is si
by coffeemug 1y ago
Thomas Jefferson sent the U.S. navy to fight the Barbary war (in modern Libya) because he refused to pay tribute to protect our trading routes. This quote is simply false. We've had enemies in the Middle East pretty much since the founding of the American republic.
- jordanb 1y ago1) Libya is not in the middle east. 2) This was before our war with Canada and just after our Quasi-war with France.
- margalabargala 1y agoWhere do you think Libya is? Libya is nowhere near the Middle East. It's not even the Near East. It's in northern Africa.