Posted on 04/09/2009 4:29:35 PM PDT by bergmeid
A ragtag band of pirates has put President Barack Obama in a bind: He commands overwhelming firepower in the form of a growing flotilla of U.S. warships, but he doesn't want to use it......
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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 ...
Why not kill the pirates, sink their vessels and destroy their bases on shore?
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.
Because Ozero is a muslim and he’s not going to hurt other muslims.
If Obama is calling the shots on this incident then he is a fool.
“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.
More reassurance that we will continue to follow W's policy. Illegal activity by poor misguided youths.
My thoughts exactly. But I'm betting that Obowma nixed it as toooooo rrrrrrrisky.
“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.
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.
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.
Hell, we have full night-vision capability. Why not just get a team of sharpshooters using infrared goggles?
“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”
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.
-- Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
I was wondering about that... some snipers on the destroyer could end this pretty quick..
The media? Hell, if he stuck it to them good, I'd raise my glass to him.
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