[ccmay]

If so, French navy should take possession of the vessel and then destroy the port to which it was taken. The host country would understand the negative benefits of hosting pirates.

I agree. Lay waste to the country for miles around. It's not like there is any kind of real government there that could be influenced, but the tribes that tolerate pirates in their midst should be taught a very painful lesson and reduced to Stone Age conditions-- not that they are much further along the evolutionary scale of civilization anyway.

-ccm

[Republic of Texas]

Brute force is all they understand. We would do well to remember that when dealing with Muslims.