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Dear Friends,
Pastor Frangipane is busy preparing for his daughter's wedding. However, he felt
this article, though already widely circulated, was both insightful and
pertinent for this present time. Indeed, prayer for President Bush, the
situation in Iraq and the turnover of power is vital right now.
Thank you,
The Staff of Francis Frangipane
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U.S. WAR AGAINST TERRORISTS GOES BACK TO FOUNDING FATHERS
(www.WorldNetDaily.com, 4/27/04)
Most Americans probably think the Islamic terrorists declared war
on the United States Sept. 11, 2001. Actually, it started a long time before -
right from the birth of the nation. In 1784, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and
Benjamin Franklin were commissioned by the first Congress to assemble in Paris
to see about marketing U.S. products in Europe. Jefferson quickly surmised that
the biggest challenge facing U.S. merchant ships were those referred to
euphemistically as "Barbary pirates."
They weren't "pirates" at all in the traditional sense, Jefferson noticed. They
didn't drink and chase women, and they really weren't out to strike it rich.
Instead, their motivation was strictly religious. They bought and sold slaves,
to be sure. They looted ships. But they used their booty to buy guns, ships,
cannon and ammunition. Like those we call "terrorists" today, they saw
themselves engaged in jihad and called themselves "mujahiddin."
Why did these 18th-century terrorists represent such a grave threat to U.S.
merchant ships? With independence from Great Britain, the former colonists lost
the protection of the greatest navy in the world. The U.S. had no navy - not a
single warship. Jefferson inquired of his European hosts how they dealt with the
problem. He was stunned to find out that France and England both paid tribute to
the fiends - who would, in turn, use the money to expand their own armada, buy
more weaponry, hijack more commercial ships, enslave more innocent civilians and
demand greater ransom. This didn't make sense to Jefferson. He recognized the
purchase of peace from the Muslims only worked temporarily. They would always
find an excuse to break an agreement, blame the Europeans and demand higher
tribute.
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A Very Different Policy
After three months researching the history of militant Islam, he came up with a
very different policy to deal with the terrorists. But he didn't get to
implement it until years later. As the first secretary of state, Jefferson urged
the building of a navy to rescue American hostages held in North Africa and to
deter future attacks on U.S. ships. In 1792, he commissioned John Paul Jones to
go to Algiers under the guise of diplomatic negotiations, but with the real
intent of sizing up a future target of a naval attack.
Jefferson was ready to retire a year later when what could only be described as
"America's first Sept. 11" happened. America was struck with its first
mega-terror attack by jihadists. In the fall of 1793, the Algerians seized 11
U.S. merchant ships and enslaved more than 100 Americans. When word of the
attack reached New York, the stock market crashed. Voyages were canceled in
every major port. Seamen were thrown out of work. Ship suppliers went out of
business. What Sept. 11 did to the U.S. economy in 2001, the mass shipjacking of
1793 did to the fledgling U.S. economy in that year.
Accordingly, it took the U.S. Congress only four months to decide to build a
fleet of warships. But even then, Congress didn't choose war as Jefferson
prescribed. Instead, while building what would become the U.S. Navy, Congress
sent diplomats to reason with the Algerians. The U.S. ended up paying close to
$1 million and giving the pasha of Algiers a new warship, "The Crescent," to win
release of 85 surviving American hostages.
It wasn't until 1801, under the presidency of Jefferson, that the U.S. engaged
in what became a four-year war against Tripoli. And it wasn't until 1830, when
France occupied Algiers, and later Tunisia and Morocco, that the terrorism on
the high seas finally ended. France didn't leave North Africa until 1962 - and
it quickly became a major base of terrorism once again.
What's the moral of the story?
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Appeasement
never works. Jefferson saw it. Sept. 11 was hardly the beginning. The war in
which we fight today is the longest conflict in human history. It's time to
learn from history, not repeat its mistakes.
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 PRAYER
| INTERCESSION: It is impossible to imagine the burden President Bush
is carrying right now. He needs to be prayed for daily. Lord, we praise and
thank You that our President is a man of public faith and commitment to Jesus
Christ. We pray that he will continue to seek Your wisdom and counsel in all his
actions on behalf of this country and in his personal and private life. (Psalm
89:21) Let our President not rely solely upon the strength of our nation's
weapons and intelligence, but first turn to You, Lord, the source of all wisdom
and strength. God, bless our Commander in Chief and the tens of thousands of
United States troops and our allies who are putting their lives on the line to
defeat the jihadists. May they inspire us all to stand strong.
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