I was upset last night with the episode of John Adams. It was a perfect set-up to educate people of both the XYZ Affair and the Quasi War. They missed it completly. I don't think there should have been much, but just enough to make people ask questions about it.

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"When war does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." -General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
"The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed."-Karl von Clausewitz