“What in the hell were those four doing in that area anyway?
You go play in deaths backyard, you take your chances......”
I too do not honestly understand their lack of common sense (brains).
They are like those who continue to travel to Mexico in spite of all the warnings…Or: “No, don’t put you hand on that hot stove” and they do it anyway.
One article I read is that they were distributing Bibles or something religious.
Distributing religious things does not immune anybody from anything...only good sense saves lives.
obama will be issuing an apology to the somali pirates for getting blood on their dirty nightshirts...then offer financial aid if they promise not to do it again....
Ah, blame the victim.
You’re missing the principle here. Why should ANY area of the seas be allowed to become a no-go zone because of Islamic pirates?
Jefferson had to deal with that over 200 years ago. The US was paying a fortune in ransom and travel in the Mediterranean was virtually paralyzed. Hence, the birth of the US Marines.
We can’t let this happen again. They have hundreds of people and dozens of ships in captivity. The average ransom is something like $9,000,000 for a tanker ship.