Ted Rall for February 18, 2015
Transcript:
Authorization for the use of farce "The barbary states, which included the ottoman regencies of algiers, tunis and tripoli, terrorized American ships. In 1801, president Thomas Jefferson obtained from congress in authorization for the use of military force to attack them. (Jefferson: They have come forward with demands unfounded either in right or in compact... I send a small squadron.) Know what other places were part of the Ottoman Empire? Iraq and Syria. (Man: ...so you're all good to nuke ISIS.) (Barack Obama: A nation of laws and very creative man)