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...like it had happened since 1807, during the Napoleonic wars, when a British man o' war overtook the U.S.S. Chesapeake, searched her for deserters and shanghaied four seamen. An even more dramatic depredation occurred in 1804, four months after Barbary pirates captured the grounded U.S. frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor and clapped her crewmen into prison. Lieut. Stephen ("Our country, right or wrong") Decatur sailed into the port aboard a vessel disguised as a blockade-runner from Malta, boarded Philadelphia and, with a crew of 84, routed the 200 Tripolitan crewmen who had been put aboard. Decatur set Philadelphia...
Lebanon last week agreed to let oil companies resume shipments to the three Western nations from its Mediterranean ports. That oil comes via two separate pipelines from Iraq to Tripoli and from Saudi Arabia to Sidon. Both lines run through Syria, whose extremist regime opposed ending the embargo and could easily close either line by twisting a few valves. The Trans-Arabian pipeline, jointly owned by Texaco, Standard Oil of California, Standard Oil (N.J.) and Mobil Oil, has been shut since the fighting erupted. Because some 20 miles of it runs through former Syrian territory, now occupied by Israel...
...when John Adams sent U.S. warships against French naval forces harassing American merchant ships. Since then, Presidents have taken it upon themselves to intervene in foreign crises more than 150 times without consulting Congress or have done so only after the fact. Jefferson did it at Tripoli in 1801, as did Buchanan against Mexican bandits in 1859, Wilson at Vera Cruz in 1914, Roosevelt in Iceland in 1941, Truman in Korea in 1950, Eisenhower in Lebanon in 1958, Kennedy at the Bay of Pigs in 1961, and Johnson in the Dominican Republic two years...
...Israelis have been harassed for years by Arab marauders; if they have occasionally hit back in desperation, that hardly equates them with those who sneak in at night to plant bombs and kill whomever they can. Our own country has reacted the same many times-against Indians, Mexicans and Tripoli pirates-and we react in similar ways today when our interests are threatened. And tell me, please, how would you react if somebody kept hitting you every time your back was turned...
...December, the 550-mile oil pipeline stretching from Kirkuk, Iraq, across 305 miles of Syria to the Mediterranean ports of Baniyas and Tripoli went as dry as the arid land through which it snakes. The reason: in a dispute with Western-owned, London-based Iraq Petroleum Co.* over transit and terminal fees, socialist Syria squelched the flow...