Put some armed Marines on each ship.
Why can’t blackwater run an escort service where a squad ferries out to the ship before they hit pirateville, then departs when they are out of the danger zone?
Or....Three or four Black Water people. It would be a lot cheaper than paying millions in ransom. I understand that the insurance companies don’t like guns on the ship. Are they getting kickbacks from the pirates? You would think that they want the cargo protected. Pretty soon, the lawyers will dictate that our own Navy can’t carry guns. As it stands now, they have the guns, just can’t use them.
My sentiments exactly. A squad of Marines (or former Marines) in charge of a well stocked armory would serve as both a deterent and an operational security presence.
These thugs are enemies of human-kind and deserve no quarter, have no rights to life or liberty, and should be killed in the same way you would kill a rabid animal.
Our seeming ineptitude at coming to grips with the essence of this problem frustrates me to no end.