Posted on 04/10/2009 4:21:39 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
In what almost seems a gleeful pronouncement, The New York Times trumpeted America's powerlessness over the recent capture by pirates of a captain of a U.S. run freighter on the high seas. With an April 9 headline that blares, "Standoff With Pirates Shows U.S. Power Has Limits,"
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Talk about Frog in Pot syndrome. The NYT is run by anti-Americans. They're allowed that under the 1st Amendment, but that's what they are. For sure, it gets into treason territory sometimes and that should be investigated.
Kind of reminds me of another President who was helpless in a hostage situation. That President was helpless because the hostage takers knew he was a pussy.
NYT = IHT
We are only powerless as we want to be.
Why is Obama being so quiet about this? Possibly because he fears that if a Black President who values his socialist ties to his father’s homeland flexes his muscle against him, Africa will turn on Obama and paint him as a bad bad black muslim man!
There is a difference and we should consider that.
NYT forgets that Obama is their man and not to run articles critical of US power since Obama is the face of that power. This may push Obam into doing something and NYT does not want that. So thety should be mindful and not to act like it is Bush that is President. They fell back into old habits here.
Thanks for posting this excellent article and the link to the insurance industry. Meanwhile US taxpayers are being asked to bail out the insurance industry.
Well...we wouldn’t want Europe to think that we’re “dumb” again would we?/s
They're right...
It's called FUBO.
Cease and desist your piracy immediately or we will systematically start destroying all your coastal lairs starting with Mogadishu. You have twelve hours to evacuate women and children.
I smell peanuts.
On a calm seas night, wouldn’t a few Navy Seal snippers, under the cover of darkness, taking out a few Pirates do the trick? What the hell are they waiting for.
Wondering if the pirates are in touch with CNN or the NYSlimes for advice on how to escape.
If only our “leaders” had the stones to do something like that..
A pussy & a fool who went to war with 8 helicopters.
America is always going to have limits because we have such pussy politicians that want be politically correct about everything. get out there and do the job the way we used to. will there be collateral damage? absolutly. but soon they will learn that we mean business and will not taunt us anymore. can you imagine told the king of england you better not send troops or we are going to write a letter of protest....
Collateral damage needs to be a feature of any real deterrent effort. When the neighbors pay a price, they won’t let this pirates operate freely. As it is now, the neighbors profit from the money the pirates bring in.
“went to war with 8 helicopters”
it’s almost unbelieveable isn’t it. But why did the military command even allow that? Then the hijacking of Flight 282 followed, entertainingly portrayed in the movie Delta Force
The NYTs headline should read “Pirate Standoff Shows Obama Weakness”. That would be honest, though. The “hostage negotiations” should go something like this:
“Hi, this is the USS Bainbridge. You have ten minutes to hand over the Captain, in which case you’ll survive. Otherwise we’ll take military action to end the situation, and you’ll all die.”
While this approach might lose a “hero captain” or two (or not), piracy would quickly come to an end off the Horn of Africa. It also occurs to me that outfitting a privateer might be fun... ;-)
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