What, you may be wondering does all this have to do today’s Somali pirates operating from a failed state (Somalia has not had a recognized government for nearly two decades) and getting increasingly brazen?įirst, there is the familiar pattern.
And it was not until the second Barbary wars in 1815 that President Madison ended the scourge once and for all. Only after the turn of the century, during Thomas Jefferson’s administration, did we attain the naval capability to begin confronting the threat head on. commissioned the construction of six naval frigates. But it was not until George Washington’s second term, when in 1794 the U.S.
Ironically, it was this threat that really gave birth to a serious U.S. inadvertently bid up the price by paying ransom after ransom to the Barbary pirates. It is a nearly forgotten bit of history that the U.S. presidents, from George Washington to James Madison, were humiliated and stifled by. It was a problem that the first four U.S. trade in the Mediterranean in the late 18th and early 19th century. It was Muslim pirates based in what is now Algeria that captured commercial ships and held those aboard as hostages who put at risk a U.S. And the policy response too, is instructive today, though the issues raised are more complex. It was more than two centuries ago when Muslim pirates were, after England, perhaps the most serious foreign threat bedeviling the new American republic.
BARBARY PIRATES MOVIE
Amidst all the angst and astonishment about those wild and crazy Somali pirates, we seem to have forgotten that we’ve been through this movie before.
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