It’s absolutely true though. The Japanese and others have illegally fishing in Somali waters. Also shipping companies have been using their beaches as latrines. If foreigners were doing that to US beaches how would you feel?
In a previous life I had a rather stressful job. My main function was to keep African Embassy posts filled. Most places require some arm-twisting to fill, and some African posts have SOMETHING to offers. Mogadishu was the hardest. The Embassy Post Report emphasized the beauty of Somalia’s beaches. It failed to mention that an abattoir nearby dumped all of its offal via a pipeline into the waters just off of Mogs. The offal attracted schools of sharks; many Somalis every year get eaten by them. We had to dangle some other benefits, usually monetary, to get them to agree to a two-year tour of duty.
They ARE trashing our country where they live. If I were in charge, starting tomorrow, all of Detroit would be deported to Somalia. Either pack up, get on the ship, or die. That would be everyone in Detroit, the bad ones and the few good ones who chose to stay there are all guilty for even honoring the place by living there.
Oh, and the Somalis would follow soon after. Every one of them. Pack up, get on the ship, or die. Your choice.
There is a restaurant in Astoria, Oregon, that has a ‘captured’ Japanese fish finder in the lobby (quickly dumped off the Columbia River when the Coast Guard moved in on them for illegally fishing). The Japanese fishing fleets go where the fishing exists and they really, REALLY like salmon.
As for using Somali beaches as a latrine, there are many vessels out on the high seas that dump raw sewage. Since it happens to our coastline, maybe we should be incensed, too. However that is a lousey reason for piracy.
So illegal fishing and dumping raw sewage is an international problem. Maybe Americans should become pirates; is that what you’re suggesting?
Come on - you’re no bleeding liberal heart! Stop making excuses for the Somalis.