[AFreeBird]

You mean The job Obama won’t do.

I have no doubt that the US Navy is ready, willing and able to deal with piracy on the high seas.

They just need a CiC with the stones to do so, as Thomas Jefferson once did.

[JohnBovenmyer]

They just need a CiC with the stones to do so

Not just a CiC. Someone needs to call Pelosi and Reid on this one:

Article I., Sect. 8. The Congress shall have power:
...
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
...

With great power comes great responsibility. They are constitutionally empowered, but act UNpowered.