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cgod  ·  3788 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lessons From America's War for the Greater Middle East

Good read.

People forget that Americans first foreign war was the War of the Barbary Coast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War . Won the whole thing with gun boat diplomacy and chests of gold. I think we could have learned something from it, instead we went the regime change rout.