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Analysis: Pirates put Obama in 21st-century bind
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| April 9, 2009
| Anne Gearan
Posted on 04/09/2009 4:29:35 PM PDT by bergmeid
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posted on
04/09/2009 4:29:35 PM PDT
by
bergmeid
To: bergmeid
As I understand it ,, these Somali pirates are all from one village , give them ransom for the captain and then let an AC130 visit their hometown ...
To: bergmeid
Why not kill the pirates, sink their vessels and destroy their bases on shore?
Isn’t that how it’s done?
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posted on
04/09/2009 4:34:31 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
"Isn’t that how it’s done?"
Not these days apparently. We need a more nuanced approach.
We could have H! cackle as she explains past US responses to Islamic Pirates.
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posted on
04/09/2009 4:39:13 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: BenLurkin
Because Ozero is a muslim and he’s not going to hurt other muslims.
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posted on
04/09/2009 4:43:05 PM PDT
by
bergmeid
(How about another massive nationwide protest on July 4?)
To: bergmeid
seems like an ideal situation for a SEAL team
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posted on
04/09/2009 4:43:44 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(Obama - the ethically excepted asterisk administration)
To: bergmeid
If Obama is calling the shots on this incident then he is a fool.
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posted on
04/09/2009 4:43:44 PM PDT
by
Brilliant
To: bergmeid
“A ragtag band of pirates has put President Barack Obama in a bind”
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Absolutely incorrect.
Zeros complete lack of balls has put his skinny, lawyerly ass in a bind.
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posted on
04/09/2009 4:45:34 PM PDT
by
EyeGuy
To: bergmeid
"he dispatched aides to reassure the nation that their government was pressing to free Phillips."
More reassurance that we will continue to follow W's policy. Illegal activity by poor misguided youths.
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posted on
04/09/2009 4:46:01 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: stylin19a
seems like an ideal situation for a SEAL team My thoughts exactly. But I'm betting that Obowma nixed it as toooooo rrrrrrrisky.
To: Brilliant
“If Obama is calling the shots on this incident then he is a fool.”If 0be were calling the shots, the ship would not have been retaken.
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posted on
04/09/2009 4:47:27 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: bergmeid
Its our own version a Sum of all Fears, a POTUS that has divided loyalties, afraid to make the break at the starting gate, a gun dog that flinches and cowers when it hears the hunter at his trade.
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posted on
04/09/2009 4:49:22 PM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
To: InterceptPoint
Make that Obowma nixed it as toooooo rrrrrisky.
To: bergmeid
This is low hanging fruit.
For the low cost of the deaths of a few hundred pirates in Ethiopia, FUBO could establish himself as a “war leader” with little downside political risk.
The media would go crazy in adulation if he attacked the pirate's shore bases.
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posted on
04/09/2009 4:50:09 PM PDT
by
Jacquerie
(Truth to the Left is that which advances their goals. Factuality is irrelevant.)
To: stylin19a
seems like an ideal situation for a SEAL team. Hell, we have full night-vision capability. Why not just get a team of sharpshooters using infrared goggles?
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posted on
04/09/2009 4:53:42 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(What's Black and White and Red all over?)
To: bergmeid
“That modern-day response included more warships — a remnant of 20th-century U.S. exceptionalism — as well as high-tech surveillance planes buzzing above the crisis waters.”
Never thought I would hear the US Navy called a “remnant of 20th Century US exceptionalism”
To: Brilliant
If Obama is calling the shots on this incident then he is a fool. He calls the shots on everything -- it's all about control. And yes, he is a fool who thinks he knows everything and can do it all.
Listen to someone who knows him: Richard Epstein, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago since 1972.
Crisis & the Law
To: bergmeid
"There is no point in having the capacity if you haven't got the will to use it."-- Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
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posted on
04/09/2009 5:00:48 PM PDT
by
Tenniel2
(Memo to politicians: Don't worry about "shovel-ready." Worry about "pitchfork-ready.")
To: Tenniel2
I was wondering about that... some snipers on the destroyer could end this pretty quick..
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posted on
04/09/2009 5:03:38 PM PDT
by
Mmogamer
(<This space for lease>)
To: Jacquerie
The media would go crazy in adulation if he attacked the pirate's shore bases. The media? Hell, if he stuck it to them good, I'd raise my glass to him.
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posted on
04/09/2009 5:04:24 PM PDT
by
Steel Wolf
(Oh, well. Back to the drawing board....)
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