Defense secretary: Killed Somali pirates were "untrained" teenagers ("No Military Solution")

China View ^ | 4/13/2009 | Mu Xuequan

[DPMD]

Untrained teenagers? Don’t let Moneybags Murtha find out.

[epow]

Gates said that the slain pirates, aged at between 17 to 19, were heavily armed but inexperienced.

Good, if they're inexperienced, untrained teenagers they will be easier for our people to kill.

How did the seafaring nations of the world get into this state of mind that seems apologetic for freeing the innocent victims of murderous pirates because they (the pirates) are plying their trade out of the ports of poor 3rd world nations? Does this mean that raiding, robbing, murdering, and kidnapping on the high seas is acceptable if the pirates are poor and young?

Not to me it isn't, and if I was in charge I would bring any pirates our navy captured back to a US port and hang them from a gibbet on the wharf for public viewing as the custom was in 17th and 18th century England.

If anyone who has read my previous FR posts thinks that I am betraying the Biblical principles that I often refer to, read the book of Exodus and see the penalty that God prescribes for thieves and murderers. Hanging is a merciful means of execution compared to stoning.

[popdonnelly]

If someone was holding an AK-47 to my back, and they got shot in the head, I’d be pretty happy. Untrained teenager or not.

[pissant]

It was nice to see such accurate shooting from our men. Here’s to hoping for a future full of dead pirates/jihadis.

[EDINVA]

It makes a difference to their victims if they’re untrained v. trained ? Or if they’re 16 v 25 ?

I am so damned out of sympathy.

[LibLieSlayer]

Oh yeah baby!!! I have some vids taken by buds in Afghanistan of those things destroying villages in a nano second. That is some serious fire power... and I love the sound of that cannon!

LLS

[Leisler]

So was Scotland, and most of Europe.

Frankly, if you pay money, and don’t defend yourself, you are not safe in America. Everything else is superficial.

Incentives matter.

[Zeppo]

there's really no way in my view to control it unless you get something on land that begins to change the equation for these kids

No problemo...

The knowledge that a full ration of professionally-aimed-and-delivered hot lead awaits you will have an amazingly salutary and prophylactic effect on those wayward teenagers...

[LibLieSlayer]

He was on a prayer rug Easter evening... facing mecca and praying for forgiveness.

LLS

[TET1968]

To avoid being tried for War crimes, Bo has ordered that all little skinny types aiming an AK47 at you must be asked “Are You a teenager and if so, have you been trained”...before they are fired upon.

[Miss Behave]

I was thinking the very same thing the other day, piss. Heaven help us these next four years.

[LibLieSlayer]

Lets just fly gates over in a Blackhawk and kick his ass out “treeline” in Adis Ababa.

LLS

[TADSLOS]

Bob Gates just scored a walk on to the Oprah show. Watch it happen.

[marmar]

Yep, those Warriors make me proud...we also have to protect them by not letting these unpatriotic scum, that is now in control of our White house........

[TADSLOS]

LOL! I guess those three couldn’t read the training schedule.

[tiki]

MOst murderers are untrained, duh. Do you know anyone who went to Pirate School?

[Miss Behave]

YES, Yorlik. Disgraceful.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Actually ?
It was Benedict Arnold who really won that battle ( the battle of Saratoga ) but ? just as Obama now ? Gen Gates took credit for it, and managed to ruffle some feathers in the Continental Congress to have George Washington replaced by ( you guessed it ... himself ) it was called the CONWAY CABAL , and we could have very well lost that war because of the BS that those few men caused.

[Jammz]

Ok, it’s time for the pirates to go to school.

Don’t mess with American ships, it will get you killed.
Don’t mess with French ships, it will get you killed.

Next lesson...

Pirates have guns and snipers have guns...
Pirate vs. sniper = very dead pirate

SCHOOL’S OUT, ENUFF SAID!

[rollo tomasi]

"...Gates said that the slain pirates, aged at between 17 to 19, were heavily armed but inexperienced."

Should have stayed in school and studied the



the text book more.