When you don’t finish a job it always comes back to haunt you.
We should have nuked this muslim cesspit and turned it to glass back in ‘93 and we wouldn’t be having problems today.
Not to mention all of the arrogant Somalis that subsequently came to the US and are now living on welfare while they spend their time trying to force Islam on us.
They just said on Special Report w/Britt Hume that the Brits don’t know what to do with the eight pirates they captured.
I’m sure there’s quite a few folks here who remember what the Chief of Police in LA had to say with regards to the rash of hijacked aircraft back in the ‘70’s:
“Hang ‘em. Hang ‘em at the airport.”
Sounds like AP-O is pro-pirate and anti-US, as usual.
Hey, these guys are organizing the community and spreading the wealth around, what’s the problem?
Can you say “collateral damage”? I knew you could!
Help the terrorist, die with the terrorist. Help the pirate, die with the pirate!
Where is a ship of the line when you need one? Just one battlecruiser would clarify matters in a day.
“Somalia’s increasingly brazen pirates”
The Somalia pirates are no different then Marxist/Socialists the world over.
The use the threat of force or force to tax the evil rich.
The left should be cheering these guys.
They are no different than our own IRS.
Conservative Seattle radio host Kirby Wiolbur discussed this just this morning on his radio program. He had a an expert on his show. The expert (who’s name escapes me) mentioned that the shipping companies usually just pay the ransom and don’t even report it.
The reason is that their insurance rates will go up if they report it. In their eyes, it’s better to pay a million bucks on a 100-million dollar cargo. Plus, the investigation could tie up the ship in a port for weeks, thereby taking it out of money-making service until the investigation is done.
That’s why most companies never mention it. The fact that a ULCC got taken really put it in the spotlight.
Would it not be cheaper to put some 50 cals along the deck and man them?
Time to make a big BOOM over their “boomtowns”...
“Somalia’s increasingly brazen pirates are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars, marrying beautiful women”
Yah, I’ll bet there are some real babes in Somalia!!!!
I knew it wouldn’t be long before the MSM apologists started playing up the great “social services” that the Pirates were providing for their community. Its their MO. They did the same for Hezbollah and Hamas. They think any behavior is justified as long as it results in impoverished people being taken care of.
It seems like this problem will not go away and may get much worse. Once the pirates board a ship, they have hostages. Until the crews are willing and able to defend themselves, there isn’t much the international community can do aside from sending commando’s onto captured ships.
One point someone made was that piracy is a land based problem and the solution will have to take place in Somalia and not on the Ocean.