As Iran holds the world’s oil supply hostage and America debates whether to keep paying our enemies to behave, the same question Jefferson faced roars back to life: do we keep buying off our predators, or do we make them stop? Thomas Jefferson’s fight against the Barbary pirates teaches us a lesson we seem to keep forgetting—a free people that does not defend themselves will not stay free for very long.

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