Louder with Crowder - July 15, 2024


The History of the U.S. Navy: American Masterclass with Historian David Barton | Louder With Crowder

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The United States Navy is as relevant today as it has ever been. Sea travel has played one of the largest roles in history as it relates to global trade, lifting the world out of poverty, and bringing huge swaths of the population into what you now know as the modern world. Today, throw in chaos in the Middle East, a gutted defense industrial base, and the looming prospect of a great power war between the United States and China, and you start to get the nautical picture.

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00:00:00.000 The history of the United States Navy.
00:00:03.000 So at the time of this video, it's 2024.
00:00:07.000 For those watching from the future, from our great AI overlords, we have right now budding AI, drones, even laser weapons.
00:00:18.000 So who really cares about boats?
00:00:21.000 The truth is that boats and the United States Navy are as relevant today as they've ever been.
00:00:27.000 Sea travel, Has played one of the largest roles in history as it relates to global trade, lifting the world out of poverty, and bringing huge swaths of the population into what you now know as the modern world.
00:00:40.000 Today, you throw in chaos in the Middle East, a gutted defense industrial base, and the looming prospect of a great power war between the United States and China, and you start to get the nautical picture.
00:00:54.000 To understand, though, The crucial importance of the United States Navy, what role it's played, and really what role it will play going forward, it's imperative that you understand its history.
00:01:10.000 and hopefully this helps.
00:01:17.000 Hello, happy 4th!
00:01:18.000 I'm sitting crisscross applesauce.
00:01:20.000 Can I say crisscross applesauce?
00:01:21.000 I think I can.
00:01:22.000 In front of a teepee of firearms.
00:01:25.000 You know what that means.
00:01:26.000 David Barton of Wall Builders is with us today.
00:01:28.000 And we're going to be talking specifically about, this will be a little bit shorter, because we've covered the First Amendment, Second Amendment, we've covered sort of the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, a little bit in some other videos, but this was something that was really interesting to me.
00:01:40.000 You were talking about the history of the United States and its wars with Islam.
00:01:45.000 Yeah, what happened was, as soon as we finished the American Revolution in 1783 and 1784, Congress sends Ben Franklin, John Adams, and they sent Thomas Jefferson to say, we're getting attacked all over the world, all over the Mediterranean, which was our world, our commercial world, by all these Muslims. 1.00
00:02:01.000 They're attacking us as Americans.
00:02:03.000 Find out what's going on.
00:02:04.000 So they dispatched these three guys as ambassadors to go meet with Muslims and say, what are you doing?
00:02:09.000 And so what happened was Jefferson Adams wrote back a letter to the State Department in 1786
00:02:14.000 that said, we asked the Muslim ambassador, why did they attack us?
00:02:18.000 We've never provoked them.
00:02:19.000 We've had Muslims in America since 1619.
00:02:22.000 Why are they attacking us?
00:02:24.000 And in the letter that was sent to the State Department, it says,
00:02:26.000 the Muslim told us that it was because of their Quran.
00:02:28.000 The Koran says they have to do this, that they have to subdue us, and that if they die in battle, they go to Heaven. 1.00
00:02:34.000 And so they went through it, and it's like, oh my God, are you kidding me?
00:02:37.000 And so Adams and Jefferson, being there in London with this negotiation, actually went out and bought a Koran.
00:02:43.000 It's 1746, two volumes.
00:02:44.000 They got it, and they said, I've got to see this myself. 0.92
00:02:46.000 You go to Heaven for killing people?
00:02:48.000 And so they read that, and so what happens is, over the next years, this escalates.
00:02:53.000 And they finally reach an agreement that says, look, What would it take for you guys not to attack our ships?
00:02:57.000 Because every time they saw an American flag going across the Mediterranean on a commercial ship, they attack it, they enslave the crew, they enslave the captain.
00:03:04.000 They made a ton of money.
00:03:06.000 In our terms, it'd be up to a million dollars a ship because they sell the captain back for $6,500, they sell the officers back for $3,500, and they sell the sailors back for $1,500.
00:03:15.000 So we'll give you your crew back for a million bucks.
00:03:17.000 So we're financing their jihad, essentially. 0.90
00:03:20.000 And so the question was asked, what does it take for you to not attack us?
00:03:24.000 And they said, well, If you'll build us two or three frigates, and if you'll give us several million a year, we won't attack you.
00:03:30.000 We had five nations that were going after us.
00:03:32.000 We had Algiers, and Tunis, and Morocco, and you had Turkey, and you had Tripoli.
00:03:36.000 And so we signed these treaties to stop that.
00:03:39.000 And Washington comes into office, and this is the very... This is what you were saying, right?
00:03:43.000 Yeah, this is the very first federal budget.
00:03:43.000 Yeah.
00:03:46.000 This is 1789.
00:03:47.000 This is the federal budget, 1789.
00:03:50.000 And right here... That's the whole budget.
00:03:51.000 That's the entire federal budget.
00:03:53.000 How did earmarks work at that point?
00:03:55.000 Yeah, the earmarks are over on the side of the page.
00:03:58.000 Took a little while.
00:03:59.000 So at this point, but what's interesting is the biggest line item for the next four presidents, single biggest line item, was paying money to keep Muslims from attacking us.
00:04:11.000 And so it becomes up to 10% of the federal budget.
00:04:13.000 So effectively that almost seems as though we started off negotiating with terrorists.
00:04:17.000 We negotiated tariffs because at that point we didn't have a Navy.
00:04:17.000 We did.
00:04:20.000 We had a few ships, privateers.
00:04:22.000 We had the American Revolution.
00:04:23.000 And that's why in Washington's seventh year, after having paid this money, he said, would to God that I had a Navy able to crush these enemies of mankind into non-existence.
00:04:33.000 And so we asked Congress, will you fund me a Navy?
00:04:36.000 Congress gave him the funding to build our first Navy.
00:04:39.000 And so it's now congressionally funded.
00:04:40.000 It was built under John Adams, who's called the father of the American Navy.
00:04:44.000 And so now Adams is out and Jefferson comes in in So, the reason we have a Navy is entirely due to ships being attacked by Islamic terrorists. 0.98
00:04:55.000 That's the reason.
00:04:56.000 Because, see, the Constitution does not allow a standing army.
00:04:59.000 To this day, we do not have a permanent army.
00:05:02.000 If we do not every two years pass the budget for the army and military, it all goes away.
00:05:06.000 The Founding Fathers did not want a standing military.
00:05:08.000 So, it's called the NDAA.
00:05:10.000 We do this every two years in Congress. 0.92
00:05:11.000 So, what they did was they built a Navy, and when Adams built it, and then Thomas Jefferson inherits the Navy, and at that point, he's paying about 15% of his budget on Muslim terrorists. 0.96
00:05:24.000 He said, not anymore.
00:05:25.000 I've got a Navy.
00:05:26.000 I'm putting the Marines on them. 0.97
00:05:27.000 We're taking care of this problem.
00:05:28.000 And so he, that was the motto back then, millions for defense, not a penny for tribute, because we were paying this huge amount to these Muslim nations.
00:05:37.000 And that actually brings up, I've read about this, but when I first came here, I said, well, what is this?
00:05:41.000 It looked almost like an amulet.
00:05:42.000 Yeah.
00:05:43.000 He said, no, this is actually, can I touch this?
00:05:45.000 This is where the term leatherneck comes from.
00:05:45.000 Absolutely.
00:05:48.000 Because they got over there and they were going through these nations fighting these Muslim groups that were attacking Americans because the Muslims said you either have to pay well or fight well. 1.00
00:05:56.000 Well, we've been paying well, now we're going to fight well.
00:05:58.000 At first I thought it was like something from the Game of Thrones, you know, a craft truck for the unsullied.
00:06:02.000 But, I mean, that's a small neck.
00:06:03.000 Oh, it is.
00:06:04.000 And those weren't big guys back then.
00:06:05.000 Right.
00:06:06.000 And by the way, this is one of the muskets.
00:06:09.000 You see the bling all over this musket.
00:06:11.000 This actually was a British American musket. 0.65
00:06:13.000 It was taken from British Americans, and then the Muslims kind of bedazzled, is what we say. 1.00
00:06:17.000 So the Muslims took this off of one of our guys, and they turned it into one of their muskets. 1.00
00:06:21.000 They were big on bling with it.
00:06:24.000 They were!
00:06:25.000 And so our guys are in battle, and they're getting beheaded, and they find out Muslims like going for your neck with swords, and that's where they started wearing leather. 0.98
00:06:32.000 And I noticed, if you can see this, there are what appear to be blade marks.
00:06:37.000 Do you think this was something that actually might have stopped an attempt?
00:06:39.000 I doubt that it was, but it certainly is what they used to try to stop attempts, and this is what the attempts were coming with.
00:06:44.000 That's actually one of the blades from back then, and so this is called a quicksword because it leans out in front, and it gets to your neck pretty fast.
00:06:52.000 Does the curvature Does your catcher help with decapitation?
00:06:54.000 It does.
00:06:55.000 It does help with decapitation, and when you're swinging it, you've got the momentum out front, and so it's real easy to slash and pull.
00:07:01.000 So they went into battle with an armament designed almost exclusively for beheading.
00:07:05.000 Well, it is designed for beheading, and it is a very lethal sword.
00:07:08.000 It's easy. 0.93
00:07:09.000 You can feel it's lightweight.
00:07:10.000 You can go back and forth with it.
00:07:10.000 Very light.
00:07:12.000 It's also capable, you know, if I come this way in a crowd and see you, I'll just come back after you this way, or after I catch you, maybe I just put your eyes out with it.
00:07:20.000 Oh, geez, I didn't even see that there.
00:07:22.000 It looks almost like a termite tail.
00:07:25.000 It's pretty messy.
00:07:27.000 Wow!
00:07:28.000 Now, how long did this go on for?
00:07:30.000 Well, after five years of fighting on the ground conflict, the Muslims came to the table and said, okay, we'll sign a treaty with you guys. 0.80
00:07:36.000 And so they signed a treaty with us, and at that point, this book came out in 1806.
00:07:40.000 The war went from 1801 to 1805.
00:07:41.000 This is 1806, and what this is, This is the first Koran ever published in America.
00:07:48.000 First English Koran published here.
00:07:50.000 It says Koran 1806.
00:07:52.000 We've just finished the war.
00:07:53.000 And the question is, why did we spend so much time fighting these guys?
00:07:56.000 We don't understand what this is about.
00:07:58.000 So the largest publisher in the country at that time, Isaiah Thomas, kind of like the Simon Schuster today, put this out with a two-page introduction.
00:08:05.000 He said, guys, Americans, if you will read this, you'll understand why they went to war against us. 0.90
00:08:10.000 And he says right here, he says, Now obviously a lot of people in the Muslim world say, well there isn't any accurate, you can't really read the Quran unless you read it in Arabic.
00:08:17.000 Right, right.
00:08:17.000 of what is contained in this book will render that law contemptible.
00:08:19.000 Now, obviously a lot of people in the Muslim world say, well, there isn't any accurate...
00:08:24.000 You can't really read the Quran unless you read it in Arabic. 0.96
00:08:26.000 Right, right.
00:08:27.000 So what would they say about that book?
00:08:29.000 See, that is translated into English out of Arabic.
00:08:32.000 And for Americans, it's, guys, if you want to understand what we're fighting, read what they say.
00:08:37.000 And so, you know, the other guys say, well, you can't understand it in Arabic.
00:08:40.000 Yeah, you can.
00:08:41.000 And the philosophy comes through, and they say, when you see this, you'll say Sharia law is a really bad deal.
00:08:46.000 And that was the deal.
00:08:47.000 Sharia law is incompatible with the constitutional freedoms. 0.98
00:08:49.000 There's just no way around it.
00:08:50.000 Dr. Ben Carson got a lot of flack for saying that.
00:08:53.000 He didn't say Muslims can't live in the United States.
00:08:55.000 He said Sharia law because it is a legal doctrine.
00:08:59.000 It is superior to the Constitution, and it does not give the freedoms or due process or anything else.
00:09:04.000 So that's what we had, and we thought we were okay, and now Madison becomes president, and we get involved in the War of 1812 against the British.
00:09:11.000 And at that point in time, the Muslims go, oh look, they're all occupied, let's attack them again. 1.00
00:09:15.000 So they started attacking us again, and that's where we first learned that you need to be able to fight a war on two fronts.
00:09:20.000 Because Madison is so tied up with the British, we couldn't do anything with the Muslims. 1.00
00:09:24.000 And so as soon as he finished with the British, he went over and whacked the Muslims again and got another peace treaty. 0.86
00:09:29.000 But it was 32 years that we fought Muslims in Barbary Power War. 0.84
00:09:33.000 And if you even think of the Marine Corps hymn, From the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli, Tripoli was the nation.
00:09:40.000 This is the map that was used in 1780.
00:09:43.000 Tripoli is the entire nation right here that we call Libya.
00:09:46.000 And by the way, Benghazi is sitting right there.
00:09:48.000 It was a problem even back then.
00:09:49.000 Yeah. 0.52
00:09:49.000 So the nation of Tripoli, this is where we spent so much time with Marines and fighting Muslim terrorists. 0.52
00:09:54.000 So that's a 32 year war that America has.
00:09:57.000 So this idea that it's a new sort of radicalized portion of the Islamic world, and I want to make really clear, we're not talking about all Muslims, we're certainly not talking about all Muslims living in the United States, but this idea that the war in the Middle East or the Islamic portion of the world is really new with only more recently radicalized factions.
00:10:16.000 It sort of is refuted by the mere notion that the Navy was created solely with the express purpose to fight.
00:10:22.000 And we have a number of newspapers recording the atrocities done to Americans by Muslims after they would capture them, and it's ISIS kind of stuff.
00:10:30.000 So this is not a new philosophy.
00:10:32.000 It's been around for at least 200 years that Americans have dealt with.
00:10:35.000 What we're doing today is only the second American war on terror.
00:10:38.000 The first one we had was 32 years.
00:10:39.000 You know, this one's gone almost two decades now.
00:10:42.000 But we think this is a new thing and that we can sit down and negotiate.
00:10:46.000 Adams and Jefferson found out back then you can't negotiate with the philosophy that says you go to heaven by killing people.
00:10:51.000 And while not every Muslim believes that, certainly the radical, what we call the radicalized parts and the more devout parts, whatever you want to say, that's incompatible with our thinking.
00:11:01.000 That's why we had to go to war because you can't negotiate with the, we say, hey, let's all be nice to each other. 0.97
00:11:05.000 They say, well, if we kill you, we go to heaven.
00:11:07.000 And is that why we sort of create, or at least it's seen as a truism, the policy of we don't negotiate with terrorists?
00:11:13.000 That was part of it, because we were negotiating so heavily back then, it irked the Americans, and that's why that pen came out that says, not a penny for tribute, but millions for defense.
00:11:22.000 We'll fund the Navy, we'll send the Marines over, we'll do what we have to, but you're not going to hold us captive by making us pay you.
00:11:29.000 We're funding your war. 0.95
00:11:30.000 And by the way, they were attacking nine nations at the time, not just America.
00:11:33.000 Yeah, but Great Britain and they were going after France and Spain and Sweden and the Dutch and others, what they called Christian nations.
00:11:39.000 They had a war against all Christian nations. 0.91
00:11:42.000 So that was a lot of it.
00:11:43.000 That's why we don't negotiate with terrorists.
00:11:46.000 That goes back to those shared values.
00:11:47.000 It's not necessarily about how much you spend, but it's about not bowing down for people who will make sure that you kneel no matter what.
00:11:53.000 Mr. Barton, thank you very much.
00:11:54.000 You can watch the other videos that we've done, the other installments on Second Amendment, First Amendment, Civil War, and we are going to have to come back and do a whole segment on World War II because this is just an absolute museum.
00:12:03.000 Thank you so much, sir.
00:12:04.000 Thanks, bro.