If he were serious about stopping this once and for all, he would have ordered the military to level the village the Pirates come from, have already sunk the hostage boat, as well as the other boats coming out with more hostages.
Zero tolerance (no pun intended) is the ONLY policy when dealing with Terrorists. Kill them all and let Allah sort them out!
Good point. However, I just want to point out Pirates are not terrorists, they are pirates ...
All pirates are not terrorists, and pirates goals and terrorists goals are never the same ... All pirates are not necessarily bad people ... Somalian pirates do not seem to be good people at all... But I have not seen or heard of them beheading infidels or blowing themselves up in a group of crowded innocent people ... Pirate Hostages are held for ransom and released unharmed most the time unlike hostages of terrorists who are held for ransom, then demand prisoner exchange before finally being beheaded because the Koran told them too ...
Saying that, this group of Pirates should have been captured and/or killed the night the first warship arrived.
The FBI negotiators have allowed the pirates to bring reinforcements! Unbelievable!
Better yet, we watch with reconnaissance assets where the pirates bases are, where they live, and what they are doing 24/7 ...
If the navy would have had those intelligence assets back in 1805, or 1815 .... The Barbary wars would have been over in a matter of days ... not months ...