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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING
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To: D.Austin who wrote (13303)5/23/2002 4:49:52 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
When did our leaders loose the backbone that made this country great.
About 1799? When the ink was hardly dry on the Constitution?

In 1799 the United States agreed to pay $18,000 a year in return for a promise that Tripoli-based corsairs would not molest American ships. Similar agreements were made at the time with the rulers of Morocco, Algiers, and Tunis.
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Things never are all that simple. You have to pick your fights. Even with the power the US has, we cannot take on the entire world. We might be able to nuke a large chunk of it, but nobody could live on what's left afterwards.

Not doing anything? Ask those al Qaeda soldiers in Cuba. I think they have a different opinion.

Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
What's your solution?
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