[Sthitch]

Piracy disappeared when there was a Carrier Battle Group in the region helping with the Tsunami relief. Maybe it would be good training for our Sailors and Marines to rid this region of Pirates. Remember the second stanza of the Marine Corps hymn refers to eliminating pirates.

[injin]

yes , but we can't do that 'over there' !
They are good little Malay and Indonesian muslims!
If we start messing with them they couldn't be busy pumping out more little muslims , and their countries could never allow that!....

[11Bush]

Thinking along the line of the 'raiders' used in WWII. Looks like a tramp steamer until a threat arrives and then the gloves come off. A couple of mounted deck guns and enough 20mm to take care of anything short of a naval warship.

Hell, you could man it with a bunch of squids from this site as a vacation cruise.