How do we stop piracy?
Kill the pirates.
Sink their vessels.
Destroy their bases.
This is how it has always been done.
No magic required, just poof they are gone.
Kill the pirates.
Sink their vessels.
Destroy their bases.
This is how it has always been done.
But we are in the “Obama Age”.
We can't do that.
We only kill the unborn and elderly that can't speak for themselves. Nah, we need to “understand” them and repent to them.
LOL!
And that is the only way it CAN be done.
Which means ultimately “we” will probably end up trying to “talk” with them about the “problems” “we” have caused them in the past and how “we” can “help” them stop WANTING to be pirates; or some other kind of far-left, wacko, appeasement-artist, new-age philosophy, all talk and no action BS.
And then we’ll all sing kumbaya with our “former enemies” around environmentally neutral artificial camp fires on the Whitehouse lawn... ...as they lick their proverbial chops and prepare for the next attack.
It’s not rocket science, is it? Stephen Decatur and the U.S. Marine Corps had it figured out 200 years ago.
Exactly? Why is anyone even asking the question, when the answer is so obvious?
Pirates go to sea, never to return.
“Sea monsters got ‘em”.
(Unless their bodies wash up on a beach somewhere.)
At sea? Cannon is the traditonal method. On land? If captured, rope.
The blueprint goes back to Pompey Magnus and Rome.
Campaign against the pirates
Main article: Lex Gabinia
Pompey on a coin by his son Sextus Pompeius.
In 67 BCE, two years after his consulship, Pompey was nominated commander of a special naval task force to campaign against the pirates that menaced the Mediterranean. This command, like everything else in Pompey’s life, was surrounded with polemic. The conservative faction of the Senate was most suspicious of his intentions and afraid of his power. The Optimates tried every means possible to avoid his appointment, tired of his constant appointment to what they saw as illegal and extraordinary commands. Significantly, Caesar was again one of a handful of senators who supported Pompey’s command from the start. The nomination was then proposed by the Tribune of the Plebs Aulus Gabinius who proposed the Lex Gabinia, giving Pompey command in the war against the Mediterranean pirates, with extensive powers that gave him absolute control over the sea and the coasts for 50 miles inland, setting him above every military leader in the East. This bill was opposed by the aristocracy with the utmost vehemence, but was carried: Pompeius’ ability as a general was too well known for any to stand against him in the elections, even his fellow ex-consul Marcus Licinius Crassus.
The pirates were at this time masters of the Mediterranean, and had not only plundered many cities on the coasts of Greece and Asia, but had even made descents upon Italy itself. As soon as Pompey received the command, he began to make his preparations for the war, and completed them by the end of the winter. His plans were crowned with complete success. Pompey divided the Mediterranean into thirteen separate areas, each under the command of one of his legates. In forty days he cleared the Western Sea of pirates, and restored communication between Hispania, Africa, and Italy. He then followed the main body of the pirates to their strongholds on the coast of Cilicia; after defeating their fleet, he induced a great part of them, by promises of pardon, to surrender to him. Many of these he settled at Soli, which was henceforward called Pompeiopolis.
Ultimately it took Pompey all of a summer to clear the Mediterranean of the danger of pirates. In three short months (67-66 BCE), Pompey’s forces had swept the Mediterranean clean of pirates, showing extraordinary precision, discipline, and organizational ability; so that, to adopt the panegyric of Cicero:[8]
“Pompey made his preparations for the war at the end of the winter, entered upon it at the commencement of spring, and finished it in the middle of the summer.”
The quickness of the campaign showed that he was as talented a general at sea as on land, with strong logistic abilities. Pompey was hailed as the first man in Rome, “Primus inter pares” the first among equals.