Posted on 07/02/2014 9:27:41 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
President Obama had been in office less than a year when Navy SEAL snipers opened fire on a small lifeboat in the Gulf of Aden, killing three armed Somali pirates and freeing an American mariner, Richard Phillips. That April 2009 ordeal has since become the stuff of legend, outlined in a bestselling book that was developed into the 2013 Tom Hanks movie “Captain Phillips.”
Phillips met with the president in the Oval Office the following month. But it appears that will only take Obama so far. The captain is coming out in a public relations offensive against the White House’s new counter-piracy plan. It is time for the United States to “zero in on the pirates’ nests and eradicate them,” Phillips said in news release published Wednesday by a maritime officers union.
The new White House plan, released June 20, states that pirates require land-based support and access to weapons in order to hijack ships at sea. It suggests that piracy at sea can only be reduced if bases on shore are disrupted or dismantled, and says the United States “will work with other governments and international organizations to disrupt and dismantle pirate bases to the fullest extent permitted by U.S. and international law.”
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that guy is more of a butt pirate...
The US was not, and still is not, a signatory of the treaty. We abide by it, and continue to recognize its principles, but we are not constrained by it. We, the Congress not the President, can still issue Letters of Marque per the Constitution, though none have been issued since 1815.
It is time for the United States to “zero in on the pirates’ nests and eradicate them,” Phillips said....
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Naive to think that Obamugabe would move against islamonazis.
One thing wrong with your graphic; Obamugabe’s chest of a 6-year-old could not support that much metal.
You're right. I was thinking only of container ships. I didn't even think of smaller vessels.
First time I shot an AR-15 was on a sailing trip thru the bahamas. My uncle bought it a few days before we sailed in case of a pirate run in. This was 30 years ago.
I thought pirates are funny and cute and looked like Johnny Depp?
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