My guess is that would make them Martyrs, heroes at home to die at the merciless American snipers hand. I think a siege, while it takes time, is a more humiliating thing to carry home. Pray for the Captain’s strength and wisdom. Could you hear the discussion back home.. “So, Frank, I heard your son tried to seize a ship full of Americans. Umm, What was he thinking? That boy has never been the sharpest knife in the drawer.”
I could be wrong, but I don’t think these guys are Jihadis. They’re more straight up criminal scumbags, who may or may not be nominally Muslim, given that they’re Somali.
When the captain got out of the lifeboat, we should have blown the Somali scum out of the water.
If I was President, I’d try a night raid with Navy Seals. I’d then remove the bodies, including the captain’s if he was also killed in the raid, under the same cover of secrecy. Let pirates and jihadis kept guessing about what happened.
President Oblather will do nothing, except maybe pay a ransom. That’ll stop them(sarcasm).