Doesn’t it inspire confidence in you to hear an admiral say he is, “Shocked,” by a predictable tactical scenario!
Lord, deliver us from political military types.
"Paying the ransom would only lead to further demands, Jefferson argued in letters to future presidents John Adams,
then America’s minister to Great Britain, and James Monroe, then a member of Congress.
As Jefferson wrote to Adams in a July 11, 1786, letter, “I acknolege [sic] I very early thought it would be best to effect a peace thro’ the medium of war.”
Paying tribute will merely invite more demands, and even if a coalition proves workable, the only solution is a strong navy that can reach the pirates,
Jefferson argued in an August 18, 1786, letter to James Monroe: “The states must see the rod; perhaps it must be felt by some one of them. . . .
Every national citizen must wish to see an effective instrument of coercion, and should fear to see it on any other element than the water.
A naval force can never endanger our liberties, nor occasion bloodshed; a land force would do both.”
“From what I learn from the temper of my countrymen and their tenaciousness of their money,”
Jefferson added in a December 26, 1786, letter to the president of Yale College, Ezra Stiles,
“it will be more easy to raise ships and men to fight these pirates into reason, than money to bribe them.”
truly an idiot and a 4 star at that. I think he is another push button fighter pilot type that forgets the small stuff like boarding parties.
Can you imagine this from Patton or MacArthur or Petraeus or Odiorno or Nimitz or Halsey or Spruance or 31kt Burke or Nelson or Pellew or JPJones or Wellington or any of the famous fighting Captains, Admirals and Generals of history.
Where does Bush find these wimps.