To: Clioman
How much you want to bet NO OTHER RUSSIAN VESSEL GETS HIJACKED
23 posted on
05/11/2010 10:43:10 AM PDT by
Mr. K
(This administration IS WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY!)
To: Mr. K
How much you want to bet NO OTHER RUSSIAN VESSEL GETS HIJACKEDAnd that, sir, is the moral of the story. Putin knows how to get his point across. Would that we were so forthright. Alas, we have a limpwristed femboy for a president, not a reincarnation of Ivan the Terrible nor a cowboy, and no one is afraid of limpwristed femboys.
29 posted on
05/11/2010 10:47:48 AM PDT by
ottbmare
(I could agree wth you, but then we'd both be wrong.)
To: Mr. K
How much you want to bet NO OTHER RUSSIAN VESSEL GETS HIJACKEDThis is a bunch so stupid that they tried to hijack a U.S. Navy ship.
They'll stumble their way into hijacking another one, but your main point is correct: If we'd make this type of thing SOP, it'd put this problem to an end.
33 posted on
05/11/2010 10:51:24 AM PDT by
End Times Sentinel
(In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
To: Mr. K
How much you want to bet NO OTHER RUSSIAN VESSEL GETS HIJACKED
The problem for the pirates is that this flag was flying a Liberian flag. And the picture I've seen has the name of the ship on the bow in English. How are the pirates supposed to know which ships are Russian?
A gut-wrenching nightmare for the pirates.
41 posted on
05/11/2010 11:08:17 AM PDT by
Cheburashka
(Stephen Decatur: you want barrels of gunpowder as tribute, you must expect cannonballs with it.)
To: Mr. K
I don’t understand how it’s come to this. In the 18th Century pirates were, by definition, without legal rights because they had withdrawn their allegiance to any flag. That meant that they could be shot on sight, and hanged if caught. How did we lose sight of that useful concept?
48 posted on
05/11/2010 11:49:20 AM PDT by
Clioman
(wHAT)
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