[impatient]

Wow! Fighting pirates with privateers!

Now if only Congress would only grant letters of marque and reprisal against terrorists, we'll have ourselves a splendid little war.

(I always thought I was born a century too late.)

[manapua]

Wow! Fighting pirates with privateers! Now if only Congress would only grant letters of marque and reprisal against terrorists, we'll have ourselves a splendid little war.

LOL. Back in 2002 or 2003, the Naval Institute Press' Proceedings featured a column titled "Bring Back the Privateers." You might want to search for it at the local library; I think you'd like it. I certainly did.

A bit off-topic and somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the French recently have to abandon their station off of the Horn of Africa for the first time in centuries, due to budget cuts?