Most everyone is aware of the recent pirate activity off the coast of Somalia. For those that are not there is a group of rag-tag pirates that have been hijacking ships and holding them and their crews for ransom. Apparently they have been successful in shaking down the companies as they continue to brazenly harass the shipping business. Well they pulled that shenanigan the other day on an American ship, briefly taking control of it. The crew took the ship back and most of the hijackers got on a lifeboat with the captain of the ship as hostage. This is where we sit now, several days later, in a standoff with these idiots. Well it seems now that there are idiots on both sides in this incident. We have several U.S. Navy ships surrounding this lifeboat, which has no gas, negotiating with these fools!
The last I checked we had the Navy has an elite group of individuals called Seals that are very efficient at swimming, covert actions, and killing knuckleheads. Where are they? Why do we have the FBI in there talking to these guys? Many years ago we dealt with the piracy issue in an effective manner: we blew them out of the water! Seems like these days we are more interested in not offending people because they may have set foot in a mosque at one time.
Let's get real. These guys are of the same ilk that attacked our soldiers in Somalia years ago. They are lawless and heavily armed and need to be dealt with. Nobody has given them a reason to give up this misbegotten activity and someone needs to. It worked two hundred years ago and will work now.
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