If they make to land, or to help, 0bama has effectively, already bowed.
If they make it to land, we will end up paying 10MM in ransom. Then there will be DOZENS of expats kidnapped ‘round the globe.
Who would have guessed that one of President Obama’s biggest foreign tests in his first 100 days would come from a ragtag band of pirates and a high-seas hostage drama?
The Pentagon has dispatched naval firepower, and the FBI sent in hostage negotiators But Obama has remained silent on the standoff so far.
His top lieutenants have fired back with broad pledges to solve the problem of piracy in the region — without providing detailed plans for doing so.
Attorney General Eric Holder said this week the United States will take whatever steps are needed to protect U.S. shipping interests against pirates, but he also said it is too early to tell what action the U.S. government might take against the pirates if they are captured.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for world action to “end the scourge of piracy.”