[Pearls Before Swine]

I never learned any such history in public school here in the U.S.A fifty years ago.

You did, but not in any detail. Remember "From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli?" Tripoli was because of Muslim piracy in the Mediterranean, which was state supported.

[MeshugeMikey]

The song we knew....the hisrory of the Places In the song werent brought up. It wasn’t until America was attacked in 2001...that I knew what the mention of Tripoli was about...