Posted on 04/10/2009 5:06:42 AM PDT by IrishMike
The lifeboat is an enclosed boat.
So what is the picture on Drudge’s homepage? Looks like a bunch of hoodlums whooping it up in a Boston Whaler! http://drudgereport.com/
Guilty, weak, and deserving of contempt.
The hostage separates himself from his captors and nothing happens. Welcome to “The Day’s of Malaise II”
Alot of people have some action movie type solution here. ABC News has video of the lifeboat. It if fairly well enclosed, and 28 feet long. So, the idea of some sort of simultaneous sniper shot at all 4 pirates seems unlikely. The fact the captain jumped off means that they are getting tired, which is good.
My negotiation would have started this way: If Phillips dies, you all will die. If Phillips lives, you get to live. Since you’re out of gas, lets get this over with.
A recent report stated that the navy gave them radio batteries and food. I wonder how that exchange went...it may have been an opportunity to overpower them...but who knows.
Now, the pirates’ friends are steaming that way, in other hijacked vessels, with their kidnapped crews. Even the pirates know that Obama is a ‘citizen of the world’. Obama should IGNORE these other ships, and not let the circumstance of foreign sailors cloud the situation he has with one American. Step one in this would have been to deny the pirates the ability to communicate...I don’t understand why the Navy hasn’t been able to stop that yet.
Anyway, I hope that Phillips makes it out of this...but I don’t expect alot of gun play.
Well we have to get our act together in 2010 and 2012 to defeat the socialists and defeatists. It is going to get much worse before it can get better. We are Americans, we will never surrender and will never give up even if our President and the liberals in Congress are socialists and defeatists.
The pictures I have seen of the lifeboat shows it to be one of the covered, no open, types. If it's covered then that really limits the usefulness of snipers to resolve the situation.
Are other pirates really stupid enough to send additional hijacked vessels and their hostages to the area, to be used as human shields?
One answer lies not with the pirates themselves, but with their family and/or friends. Take a bunch of wives and kids or parents to the scene and tell them give up the captain or it's curtains for the relatives. Might also do some serious damage to their homeland, especially around where some of these guys hail.
I would also make it abundantly clear to the pirates that NOTHING would done by coalition (US) forces that would give them martyr status. In fact, if need be they will be dealt with in a manner that absolutely assures their moon god would never let them into his paradise. Same for the kinfolk.
This delay in a resolution is maddening, but when I think about the situation without the interference of emotion I realize the first and foremost goal is the safe return of the captain. And that could well mean waiting them out.
Sadly, the stated, and demonstrated, intentions of our new President regarding dealing with Muslim adherents make it very difficult to deal with these vermin in an appropriate manner, a manner that will prevent further such missions.
Drudge prefers sensationalism in the images he uses.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090410/us_nm/us_somalia_piracy
Update of sorts....
One can only assume obama is too timid to act - worse : he is afraid to kill a few fellow black african muslims
Wonder what would happen if some Navy Seals would swim under that boat and put a hole in it??
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Two words: Operation Entebbe. End of story.
Indeed. I left off the “/s” after my post (doh!).
That man SWORE to protect the United States from enemies foreign and domestic.
That mirrors my first thought. If I were in the captain's situation, I would think that surely the US Navy would have people just itching for me to get into the water, away from my kidnappers, so they could act decisively.
What must he be thinking now? Let down by incompetence. Someone else posted that O has given orders for no shooting and no Seals in the water. If so, the good captain's current situation is a direct result of those orders.
This man just provided the perfect opportunity to take out all of the pirates with minimal risk to him.
He's got my vote over the current occupant already.
I’m sure the navy does have eyes on that life boat day and night. Rules of engagement are determined by the Commander in Chief. Anyone care to guess who that would be?
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