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Remember History: Give Pirates No Quarter...

How Jefferson would deal with Somalia

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 22, 2008 12:45 PM CST

(Newser) – The US can learn from its 18th-century experience with piracy, Michael Oren writes in the Wall Street Journal. America had no Navy in 1785, so when the Barbary Pirates demanded a million-dollar tribute in exchange for free passage through the Mediterranean, America paid. That million...   Read full story »

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