I didn't know that. Well, that opens more options doesn't it.
If they aren't fishing then they won't mind if we destroy everything that floats along that coastline. An LHA, a couple frigates and some fast boats and we should be able to wrap up this problem in a couple weeks.
This makes me angry.
I say spend a day dropping leaflets telling people to get the hell out if they aren’t pirates, stop and board every boat that leaves to go to sea and inspect it, get four or five 12 plane formations of B-52’s, load them up with MK84 iron bombs to full capacity, set the drop to ripple and cruise down the Somali coast, tearing it up so badly they cannot take a kayak out.
When that formation is done, do a 180 and wave to the next group of incoming formations as they pass outbound.
Lather, rinse, repeat. It is not worth the life of one single US serviceman to set foot on shore.