Our Navy guys could have solved his is a few hours. They should not have to seek presidential authority to do so.
That is plain wrong!
Its disturbing becaise it shows thet the ROE on pirates are essentially flawed, and its through restrictive ROE that effing lefty idiots like Obama make our soldiers suffer immensely.
Normally in an event like this Captain Phillips would be the news prize of the week, all of the MSM would be doing interviews of him and parading him around for ratings.
But I have not seen hardly any exposure of him, nor have I heard his story from his lips.
Has he been placed under a gag order? In the name of Homeland Security, or to not degrade the decision making capability of the POTUS?