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To: P-40
I guess it would have to have been the late-1700s, by definition. :)

Touche.

Those were just plain old pirates though.

Not true. Note the quote in my original "question" post above about their justification for their acts; it sounds just like today's jihadist crowd.

15 posted on 08/10/2007 8:35:15 AM PDT by xjcsa (Hillary Clinton is nothing more than Karl Marx with huge calves.)
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To: xjcsa
it sounds just like today's jihadist crowd.

But at least these guys weren't so religious that they couldn't be bought off...for awhile anyway. :)
18 posted on 08/10/2007 8:38:53 AM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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