Winston Smith
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Ya I mean like when we were clearly attacking Muslims when they started attacking and enslaving our sailors prior to the barbary wars. :roll: And by "interfering in their business" I take it you mean, finding, developing, and then purchasing their oil at a fair price so that they could stop living in ****ing tents in the ****ing desert. How dare we.
The Barbary Wars weren't the kind of boundless quagmire we have today. We took care of the pirates and went on with our business, unlike the French, who colonized North Africa and have had trouble ever since. We didn't worry much about Islam again until after the World Wars, when we really started interfering. By that I mean overthrowing democratic governments, supporting religious extremists and dictators, nurturing police states, and generally wreaking havoc.