The Barbary Pirate "Corsairs" and the United States

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"The Big Stick" theory has almost always proved to be effective, provided you are willing to use it. We don't seem willing to use it very often these days, hence you get 47 guys in a leaky rowboat, wearing Reebok's, attacking ocean liners. Odd, what with satellite tracking, and much bigger sticks these days, Jefferson seemed more capable of dealing with these thugs. Paying ransoms and tucking them in bed at night has never worked with terrorists, they only understand the Big Stick, and the watery grave. We are the ones who don't seem to understand that anymore.
 
"The Big Stick" theory has almost always proved to be effective, provided you are willing to use it. We don't seem willing to use it very often these days...Paying ransoms and tucking them in bed at night has never worked with terrorists, they only understand the Big Stick, and the watery grave. We are the ones who don't seem to understand that anymore.
More often than not, it seems embedded within our own human nature that our actions don't particularly produce any consequences from them unless someone or some entity purposefully holds us accountable for them.

This is true for not only pirates (both real and 'virtual') but also governments. In my opinion, and I think yours too, "The Big Stick" sometimes is shortened because people want to give other people the benefit of the doubt. In reality, this is exactly what terrorists, bullies, and what-not are counting on in order to get away with something substantial without facing the consequences.
It is gorilla warfare:banana split: at it's finest and the #1 target, it seems, they hold steady within their crosshairs is ... everyone's "kindness."
 
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