What exactly is a 21st Century response to piracy? "Piracy may be a centuries-old problem but we are working to bring an appropriate 21st century response", Clinton said.
It seems to me that the US Navy holds ALL THE CARDS in this situation. They could not possibly be in a better position. Here you have 4 pirates holding 1 captain in a drifting disabled lifeboat in the shadow of the overwhelming force of the US Navy. What is the problem? eh pirates...... give up the Captain and we let you live in a nice US prison (not in Cuba) or you all die. No deception, no bait and switch; just honorable "negotiation". The problem is this. These pirates know us all too well. They are actually negotiating for money when they have absolutely no position to negotiate from other than they think (know) they can pull this off. Why? They have before. "In 2007 there were 263 attacks worldwide with 41 occurring in the Gulf of Aden or the east coast of Somalia. In 2008, there were 293 attacks worldwide, 111 of them in the Gulf of Aden or Somalia's east coast. "Over $30 million was paid out in ransoms in 2008 alone. The average ransom per successfully hijacked ship is between $1 and $2 million."
We don't need a multinational UN solution.
Stop paying, destroy as many pirate ships as you can, and they go away.
God help Capt. Richard Phillips who gave him self up as hostage to save his crew. A true hero.
Notice how POTUS is missing in action on this. Too hot to handle I suppose. They sent out Biden on this. He's expendable. Why is Hillary laughing?
NoLeftTurnAmerica
It seems to me that the US Navy holds ALL THE CARDS in this situation. They could not possibly be in a better position. Here you have 4 pirates holding 1 captain in a drifting disabled lifeboat in the shadow of the overwhelming force of the US Navy. What is the problem? eh pirates...... give up the Captain and we let you live in a nice US prison (not in Cuba) or you all die. No deception, no bait and switch; just honorable "negotiation". The problem is this. These pirates know us all too well. They are actually negotiating for money when they have absolutely no position to negotiate from other than they think (know) they can pull this off. Why? They have before. "In 2007 there were 263 attacks worldwide with 41 occurring in the Gulf of Aden or the east coast of Somalia. In 2008, there were 293 attacks worldwide, 111 of them in the Gulf of Aden or Somalia's east coast. "Over $30 million was paid out in ransoms in 2008 alone. The average ransom per successfully hijacked ship is between $1 and $2 million."
We don't need a multinational UN solution.
Stop paying, destroy as many pirate ships as you can, and they go away.
God help Capt. Richard Phillips who gave him self up as hostage to save his crew. A true hero.
Notice how POTUS is missing in action on this. Too hot to handle I suppose. They sent out Biden on this. He's expendable. Why is Hillary laughing?
NoLeftTurnAmerica
The Kenyan village idiot drugged out his brain in college. Why would we expect anything more out of him except lies about a bow.
ReplyDeleteLet the Navy do what they need to do without politicians interfering, that is what we need to do! Also pirates = terrorists, calling them pirates romanticizes the situation.
ReplyDeleteMy thought is to have a SEAL swim over an drill a hole in the bottom of the boat while the prirates are distracted by a helicopter flying over. Then all of a sudden the boat starts filling with water. So everyone is in the water where holding an AK-47 on Capt. Phillips will be ever difficult. The recuing Phillips should be straight forward.
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