AHC: Our Oldest Friend

It is a little known fact that the first nation to recognize the United States as an independent nation was not France, Spain, or the Netherlands but Morocco. The challenge is to make this diplomatic friendship blossom into a long standing Moroccan-American friendship.
 
Somehow, make Barbary piracy an even bigger thing than OTL, to the point that the US has to declare a truly full-scale war on them. Morocco allies with the US in this war and the two destroy piracy along the Barbary coast.

That's all I can think of.
 

ben0628

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As said Morocco helps the US against the Barbary pirates.

Maybe also helps against the British in 1812, idk why though.

If they resist French influence and remain independent, I can see them allying against Spain during the Spanish American War.

Give Algeria a highly pro Soviet stance during the cold war, the US will ally with Morocco
 
This is OTL. It's why the U.S. blocks efforts at Sahrawi independence.

As for more so than OTL, maybe the U.S. thwarts Franco-Spanish designs on the country somehow?
 
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