“It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise.”
Oh, that was in 1785. Said by Tripoli’s ambassador to Thomas Jefferson and John Adams in London during the lead up to the first Barbary War. The more things change the more they stay the same. But yeah we can build peace and democracy over there in a few years.
Can we fucking pull out now?