"Most Muslims are on our side". Your quote. You REALLY believe that? Then you do not know what TRUE Islam is. I've spent 10 years (5 SFG) in the middle east. I've got more interaction with them than most. My friends from Jordan and Iran are secular. I have a BA in Middle Eastern studies. If you knew that Islam STILL wants to conquer the Infidel (you and I , and our loved ones) you'd have a different outlook. There is no such animal as a moderate Muslim. Jews and Christians are also "Children of the book" That means before they chop off our heads they afford us the "opportunity" to covert. Other religions not of the book are killed outright. Get the Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam. NOT PICKING A FIGHT. I've lost friends to them, and I'm from NYC.
Don't believe me? Read THOMAS JEFFERSON'S writings on the Barbary Pirates! They wanted us dead in 1803. On our side? You go on believing that and they will give you a orange jumpsuit and put you in a video!
Terrorists by Another Name: The Barbary Pirates
By Richard Leiby
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 15, 2001; Page C01
They considered us infidels -- and easy targets. They committed atrocious acts against civilians. They provoked war with America.
"They are odious for the constant violation of the laws of nations and humanity," as one writer put it. We saw them as bloodthirsty fanatics, sanctioned by Islamic despots, and we believed their behavior threatened the future of the modern world.
Thus the president found it necessary to launch America's first military campaign against state-sponsored terrorists. Except he didn't call them that, because 200 years ago, everyone called terrorists by another name: pirates.
For all the talk in Washington that the current battle against global terrorism represents an entirely new kind of war, against a different kind of enemy, historians say America's seen this before. Back when the nation was largely untested in the arena of foreign entanglement, we found ourselves in an extended, exasperating campaign against various Muslim states in North Africa, which harbored the notorious Barbary pirates. By most reckonings, that battle lasted 30 years.
"I've picked up a lot of parallels," says Capt. Glenn Voelz, a history instructor at West Point. "Maybe we are still fighting the same war. It's a worthwhile question for my students to consider: What's changed in 200 years between Jefferson's administration and Bush's administration?"
OVER 200 years ago ON OUR SIDE HAHHHAHAHAHAHA