Kondor3
Cafeteria Centrist
"...An American's support for Freedom for... Palestine... George Washington suitable to discuss today as we celebrate... President's Day..."
Good idea, Sherriah:
Now that you've raised this sidebar, as adjunct to our discussion about the useless and largely unsupported Boycott movement against Israel...
Now that you've conjured-up the Shades of our Founding Fathers, to discuss the involvement of the United States, vis a vis Arab and Muslim affairs...
It is worth noting that another of our Founding Fathers... a fellow in the confidence of President Washington... the primary author of our Declaration of Independence...
President Thomas Jefferson waged our first declared war...
One waged against the Arab-Muslim kingdom of the Barbary Coast...
First Barbary War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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President Jefferson certainly had the right idea.
And the US Marines had so much fun kicking Arab-Muslim ass, that President James Madison decided to send 'em back in a second time...
Second Barbary War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
...although the mere presence of a US Navy fleet and its Marine detachment were enough to make the Arab grand poobah crap his pants and cave-in, the second time around.
Good choice, for that collection of chickenshits.
But, the US Marines had a good time, both visits.
Hell, the second line in the US Marine Corps Hynn is "...To the shores of Tripoli..."
And that Hymn has been so deeply ingrained in the collective American psyche that we've even utilized that tag-line as the title for movies in the past...
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...and everyone immediately recognizes both the tag-line and what it stands for.
The United States Marine Corps.
Proudly kicking Arab-Muslim ass for 213 years and still going strong.
We found it necessary to prune back the worst that the scum in that region serve-up...
Long, long before Israel was even a glimmer in David ben Gurion's eye, and nothing whatsoever to do with the Jews nor the Worldwide Joooooish Kornspiracy...
To seriously expect BDS to get traction in support of your Arab-Muslim Hamas scum... in a proud, stand-up, courageous country like our own is pipe-dreaming.
Ain't gonna happen.
But thank you, Sherriah, for raising the point about this being President's Day.
A time for all of us to remember two great American Presidents... Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison... setting the pace for America, and the way it realistically perceives some of the scum that it has to boldly and sternly deal with, from time to time...
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