Well, if the take away is: “Americans kill pirates.” then that is a success in my book.
If the Pavlovian response in Somalia is: “Sieze Saudi ships because they pay ransom. Avoid U.S. ships because you’ll end up dead.” then that is a success in my book.
Congratulations to the United States Navy and hey, congratulations to President Obama who I believe, in fairness, played this out well.
We have to be honest about that.
Agreed, if they leave American ships alone going forward I see no reason to spend additional blood and treasure protecting the international “community”, the same ones that fund pirates with ransoms. A happy ending for all.
Yep, as much as it hurts to do it, congratulations to 0bama.
We have to be honest about that.
Obama did the right thing to free the captain by force. However IMHO we should take this one step farther by also bombing/attacking/destroying their staging facilites in Somalia as well.
4 terrorist somali pirates in a lifeboat hold the U.S. Navy at bay with rifles making America look weak, and you think Obama played this well?
I think you need your head examined.
Kudos to the U.S. Navy on an excellent job. I for one have been praying for Captain Phillip's rescue. I'm so glad I came home from Church this Easter Sunday to learn he is free and safe.
OTOH, BOOOOOO!!! To the White House that held our Navy back for 4 days while these two-bit 'pirates' made America look bad and completely BLEW the opportunity to rescue Captain Phillips the other day when he jumped out of the lifeboat.
Surely the Navy had a 'stand down' order from our limp-wristed "Commander in Chief" otherwise they'd have blown the lifeboat out of the water once Phillips was out of it!
What did the Obama Administration order, and when did they order it? That's what I want to know.
MSNBC ‘expert’ lamenting the killing of the pirates. It will make the pirates more dangerous, blah blah blah