Posted on 04/13/2009 1:18:23 PM PDT by Delacon
I disagree. The US has a long proud history of clearing the worlds sea lanes of pirates. We are REALLY good at it. Because piracy is every country’s problem, we only benefit when we help out in erradicating it. We cons are all for free markets. Markets aren’t free when they are held hostage to pirates.
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We have *enough bailouts* on the table.
There’s absolutely no reason for the American Taxpayer to pay more bailout money — for the costs of our military to solve the problems created by other countries in the world (and their shipping companies) because they ended up paying ransoms for several years...
I say *no more bailouts* — there’s enough bailout money on the table in this Obama Administration....
...Ickle is an idiot - you don’t sink fishing skiffs with a torpedo; even small trawlers aren’t work a quarter-million dollar fish...
...five inch shells are an altogether different matter...
start blowing pirates into pieces the size of a Cherrio, and they’ll stop pirating.
Unleash the Holy Hell On Earth that is our United States Military and send them screaming into the night.
It’s not rocket science, is it? Stephen Decatur and the U.S. Marine Corps had it figured out 200 years ago.
Saying that the US eradicating piracy is a bailout is like saying that that the US eradicating the Third Reich was a bailout. Hitler was everybody’s problem. The US was simply the best country available to solve it. Same goes for piracy be it off the coast of Somalia or anywhere else.
Proper way to stop pirating is to go in and kill off a bunch, Destroy their bases and their ships.
Put enough power in place to make a proper show of force and don’t pussy foot around.
What obamma lamma ding dong will do is give the somali area some of MY money to help them live better.
Won’t some one please kick some sense in to this “magic negro?
You said — The US was simply the best country available to solve it. Same goes for piracy be it off the coast of Somalia or anywhere else.
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Nope, the U.S. is *not* the best one to do it — especially when it’s not our problem in the first place. We’ll take care of our own shipping and let the pirates know what will happen with *our ships* — and the other countries’ ships are *on their own* — with no “bailouts” from the U.S. Taxpayer...
I don’t even have to read the article. The answer is: Elect true Conservatives. That will take care of the pirates both in Somalia, AND in D.C.
Burn the ports and hang the pirates. Thanks for asking me such an easy question, I didn’t even need math.
Exactly? Why is anyone even asking the question, when the answer is so obvious?
“Nope, the U.S. is *not* the best one to do it — especially when it’s not our problem in the first place. We’ll take care of our own shipping and let the pirates know what will happen with *our ships* — and the other countries’ ships are *on their own* — with no “bailouts” from the U.S. Taxpayer...”
Thats like getting pee out of the pool. You can’t seperate it. US made exports go on foreign flagged ships. Cargo made by US owned corporations in other countries go in foreign flagged ships. Businesses here in the US rely on foreign cargo making it to market here. Beside that, we already pay our military to handle situations such as this. Its one of the things they have been paid to do since the Barbary pirate days(did our navy attempt to determine which Barbary pirate ships attacked US ships? I don’t think so). Look we are either going to have other countries and business pay the cost to eliminate the piracy problem and pass the cost onto us as consumers or have our navy quickly and efficiently solve the problem. JMO but I think the most cost effective way is the latter.
Apply the Jefferson Template. It worked then. It’ll work just fine today.
Pirates go to sea, never to return.
“Sea monsters got ‘em”.
(Unless their bodies wash up on a beach somewhere.)
When those other countries come begging at our White House steps and “show us the money” (by paying for it and *not* the American Taxpayer with another “bailout”) — then we can show them how it’s done...
Until then — tough luck to all those other maroons...
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