Yes. Kill the pirates and sink their boats. Yet the current talk seems to be that we should put them on welfare and give them a coast guard.
Good grief. As Ed Morrisey points out, this is a failed state. There is NO faction capable of keeping order. You can take your choice among pirates, fanatics, and corrupt warlords. No thanks, I say none of the above.
What we need to do is sink all their boats and let them deal with their own mess, but without being in a position to export their problems to others. Why all this concern for the tender feelings of Somalis? They are some of the most cruel and dysfunctional people in the world.
Hang captured pirates at the site of capture.
destroy their ports.
But do it in such a way as to preserve their self-esteem.