For crying out loud, the U.S. government can't do ANYTHING without making a mess out of it...!
Posted on 04/09/2009 7:47:00 AM PDT by jcb2009
Apparently the ship’s master is in the lifeboat with the pirates, so they’re trying to save him. He offered himself up as a hostage to them to get the pirates off his ship, from a story I read yesterday.
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Remember the Cole!! Not American sailors??
Heh. Yeah, its speak softly and carry... well, just speak softly.
For crying out loud, the U.S. government can't do ANYTHING without making a mess out of it...!
What the HELL does the FBI have to do with this? Aside from the fact that they are useful political stooges for the left?
“Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.” Haven’t we learned that lesson yet with these Muslim pirate scum?
Who writes these articles? Merchant marines are not sailors.
Sailors have been attacked many times in the past 200 years.
Perhaps she means we haven’t had a ship taken by pirates in 200 years. At that time we fought back and taught the Barbary Pirates a lesson they remembered for two centuries.
Zero is undoing centuries of history lessons.
You forgot about this one...
Get the alphabet agency out of there and let the Navy and Marines get the job done!
Our totally lame, bogus president has to look like he is doing something in this newest ‘crisis’. For all the good the FBI can do he might as well sent in forest rangers.
Disgusting. A Navy “destroyer” cannot deal with a drifting lifeboat with 3 Somalis. Hard to imagine a destroyer skipper in the 40s or 50s couldnt deal with this where the bad guys lose and we get our man back.
Change.
No, he is correcting them. - his name is Hussein
tell teh pirate that thay have five minutes to surrender, with US captian unharmed. else we bomb their stinking muslim coastal village. sink every boat we find from there village.
these pirate will stop when their body count gets high enough.
the governmnet has no balls, obama is a muslim
And FBI has no business aboard a USN ship. Stand by for 4 years of acts of war being treated as crimes.
0bumble will promise these Muslim terrorists cab-driving jobs in Minneapolis.
It couldn't take more than a couple of 50 cal machine guns to fend the vermin off.
They may as well post a sign on the stern that says, "Come and get it.".
Oh crap. We know this won’t end well
“The merchant marine is a civilian auxiliary of the U.S. Navy, but not a uniformed service, except in times of war when, in accordance with the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, mariners are considered military personnel. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill into law granting veteran status to merchant mariners who served in war -— prior to such legislation, they were considered civilians and did not receive any of the veteran’s benefits given to members of the U.S. armed forces.
As of 2006, the United States merchant fleet numbered 465 ships[2] and approximately 69,000 members.”
Seems to me that piracy and taking hostages constitute an act of war.
Obama must want both the hostage and the perps incinerated otherwise why call in the FBI Hostage Roasting Team?
>I can’t understand why the is no security on these ships.
If you are ready?
International law forbids the arming of merchant vessels or the crew.
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