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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?

I think Kipling wrote of the Sudanese who are right next door to Somalia: "So here is to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your home in the Sudan; You're a poor benighted heathen but a first class fighting man.

Of course we should also remember that the British did beat them and the Somalis lost hundreds or even thousands at Mogadishu.

They are tough I am sure but mostly they just outnumbered us probably a thousand to one.