Deep-Six Piracy

IBD Editorial ^ | November 18, 2008

[wastedyears]

I don’t think so.

The deal will probably work out to be a few more barrels of oil for the equivalent of a few million dollars protection.

[stboz]

What's the closest big harbor of economic significance? If these guys are AQ, look for them to drive into the harbor and blow it up.

Are we and the Saudis willing to torpedo this boat to avoid that? Are we willing to accept the environmental mess?

Do we have the balls to do it?

[DonnerT]

Inside job. GPS and a sattelite phone.

[aShepard]

Where’s Paladan when you need him?

Have Gun Will Travel!

We hired many many mercenaries for security in Iraq.

I’ll bet an awful lot of them would enjoy a cruise.
Armed to the hilt with 50 cal machine guns, grenades, and acid to pour down the hull on top of a potential boarder.

[MCH]

It may be time to use SEAL teams against these bastards.

Only if they attack an American flagged vessel - then hell ya. Saudi flagged? No f'n way. Let the rich, arrogant, terrorist-funding Saudi's defend their own damn ships. Bush better stay the hell out of this - not his problem. Of course, he thinks he runs the damned world police or something since we're "the world's only superpower", so I'm wary about him staying out of this like he ought to, especially given the Bush family's longtime buddy buddy relationship with the Saudis. Not our problem.

[ketelone]

The Saudis would be the biggest Chickens east of the Suez, if they werent already the biggest Turkeys.

All they know how to do is fund terror cells. They couldnt even defend themselves against the Iraqis during Gulf WAr I. Cried for the Americans to “Protect” them.

[Niuhuru]

Better yet, let the greenwood sailors get experience this way, a perfect way to cut their teeth in small combat.

[Issaquahking]

Fourth, as hopeless as it sounds, Somalia needs nation-building. Its failed-state conditions are the root of the piracy. The United Nations, which runs the government there, needs to do more to create alternatives to piracy.

United Nations...normally the problem anywhere on the globe.

Our forefathers had it figured out back then. Consider Jefferson's solution.