[thethirddegree]

We need to bring all these pirates back to the U.S., give them a fair trial and set them on fire.

[DonaldC]

Personally, I think a burial at sea is sufficient for the pirates. I find it hard to believe we don’t know where they launch from and that place should incur significant damage as well.

[dalereed]

Why waste the money and time, just obliterate Somalia and turn it into a parking lot!

[AnalogReigns]

Actually, I saw an article a while ago which stated that historically, in the heyday of 17th Century piracy, the only effective means of stopping it was conquering or destroying their home ports/LAND bases. Piracy has historically only been successfully stopped when the ports were controlled and/or destroyed, because, unlike in the movies, ships must go in to dock.

Such was EXACTLY the case in Tripoli, when President Jefferson had the Marines literally take over that country. Europeans had suffered in slavery for literally millennia--constantly paying bribes--yet constantly being hijacked and enslaved in the Muslim's galley ships of the Mediterranean until the USA cleaned it up.

Another element in this is (OF COURSE) Islam, which fully authorizes and exemplifies piracy--as that's exactly, in a land based form, how Mohammed lived...

If we put a battleship offshore and used 16' guns to wipe out that rich town on the coast where the Somalis operate out of--there would be no more piracy.

Unfortunately, I'm sure the O doesn't have the guts to order this...

[Logical me]

We need to bring all these pirates back to the U.S., give them a fair trial and set them on fire.

Our King communists black Muslim occupier of the White House will bring them here and set them free.

[Kartographer]

"We need to bring all these pirates back to the U.S., give them a fair trial and set them on fire."

No, no, no that's inhuman! We need to capture them and then release them like the Russians do. ;-)

[LeoWindhorse]

there should have been no survivors among the pirates