When President Bush recently asked the Saudis to increase their production of oil, the media reported that the request was turned down. In fact, the Saudis offered to discuss the issue only if the President would promise a waiver of visas for Saudi students, something that Americans of all political parties would find unacceptable, given the fact that 15 of the 9/11 terrorist hijackers hailed from the oil kingdom.
This is not the first time in our history that the Muslim Arab states have held us over a barrel. In the aftermath of independence in 1776, American merchant vessels lost the protection of the British navy, and our ships were routinely attacked and boarded by Arab pirates from Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli – a federation of coastal, semi-autonomous states within the jurisdiction of the Ottoman Empire. The pirates looted all goods which were then carried in barrels, and the American crews were enslaved or used as hostages to extract ransom known as "tributes." Read more ...
This is not the first time in our history that the Muslim Arab states have held us over a barrel. In the aftermath of independence in 1776, American merchant vessels lost the protection of the British navy, and our ships were routinely attacked and boarded by Arab pirates from Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli – a federation of coastal, semi-autonomous states within the jurisdiction of the Ottoman Empire. The pirates looted all goods which were then carried in barrels, and the American crews were enslaved or used as hostages to extract ransom known as "tributes." Read more ...
Source: Family Security Matters
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