To: mnehring
When this happened before, good old Gerald Ford sent in the Marines and a handful ended the situation quickly and those pirates never took another hostage in their very brief lives. At the cost of 62 killed and wounded among the U.S. forces.
To: Non-Sequitur; mnehring
The Mayaguez rescue was a disaster we may even have abandoned three men to their death, I was fresh out of the army and I was shocked at how bad it went.
62 posted on
04/09/2009 11:14:10 PM PDT by
ansel12
(Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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