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What young people don’t understand about America and its wars

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One of the most popular complaints of the younger Americans is that the United States has been bogged down in endless war and interventionism virtually their entire lifetimes.

As much as we may not like it, the United States has engaged in conflict and meddling more or less since its inception.

The US was born in war. It expanded through war. It freed its slaves through war. It grew into a superpower through war.

And until utopia exists, it’s exceedingly likely we will need to clash with those who threaten our prestige and power.

Indeed, you can look at the parallels between today’s war against the Iranian terrorist regime and our very first foreign conflict to understand why.

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From the founding, the Islamic states in Algiers, Tripoli and Tunis in North Africa were capturing American ships, demanding tolls and taking hostages.

Without the protection of the British Royal Navy, President George Washington felt compelled to pay off the emirs.

President John Adams was even more susceptible to blackmail, appeasing the Islamic rulers with ships, weaponry, ammunition and annual sums — let’s call them “pallets” — of gold........

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