[libstripper]

The people who wrote the constitution did not believe in having military spread across the world. Don't bitch at me, you need to take it up with them.

If this is so then why, pray tell, have we had a navy throughout our entire history and why did we send our first foreign expeditionary force out at the end of the eighteenth century to fight the Barbary Pirates in the Mediterranean?

[Fundamentally Fair]

If this is so then why, pray tell, have we had a navy throughout our entire history and why did we send our first foreign expeditionary force out at the end of the eighteenth century to fight the Barbary Pirates in the Mediterranean?

Forget it, he's on a roll.

[org.whodat]

Navy forces were suppose to go there and get the job done and come home. Women stayed home at that time. However the founders thought the man purpose of the navy was to prevent invasion. Ever read any??