On April 27th 1805, seven U.S. Marines and about 90 of Hamet Karmanli’s guys, led by Lieutenant Presley O’Bannon captured Derna in the then Regency of Tripoli, modern day Lybia. It was the first time the U.S. flag was raised on foreign soil. That’s where the line “to the shores of Tripoli” comes from in the Marie Corps Hymn. Lieutenant O’Bannon and the U.S. Navy had been sent their by then President Thomas Jefferson to do battle with the Barbary Pirates in what is known as the First Barbary Pirates War.
Now this does not exactly equate to pulling Maduro out of his bed and flying him back to New York in a few hours. We didn’t have helicopters back in 1805, or F-35’s, Aircraft Carriers and C-47’s, so it was quite a trip to Tripoli and back. But it just goes to show that despite all the screaming from some in the Mass Hysteria, there isn’t anything entirely new with the Maduro intervention.
And we could have used the word capture instead of intervention here. Or we could have used operation or arrest. But we went with intervention, as it sounds like those situations where a few friends get together to try and stop someone from doing drugs. And the intervention of Maduro, will stop him from the selling drugs. We don’t know if he uses but if he does, it will stop that too.
What were the Barbary Pirates doing? Well they were interfering with international trade, seizing ships, taking hostages and demanding bribes. Things gangs do that screw up a lot of people’s lives and cost a lot of people, a lot of money. Does any of this sound familiar?
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