[Former Proud Canadian]

These are MUSLIM pirates. Doesn't anybody else see the historical precedents? Can anyone guarantee that none of this ransom money is going to fund other "community organizers" in the mid east?

This whole situation is ridiculous. Think of it for a minute. Rag tag muslim PIRATES are attacking shipping in 2009 in defiance of the whole world, and they are getting away with it!!!!

This is just another battle in the war on terror and Obama is unwilling to engage.

[nathanbedford]

The more Obama dithers, the more the crisis is exaggerated, the more the fate of a single hostage becomes inflated.

The higher the stakes, the more likely a new front on the war of terrorism will be opened by the enemy, and that the more likely this scenario will be repeated over and over.

The more Obama dithers the more impotent America appears. The more impotent America appears, the greater our national danger.

From the fate of one hostage the world's only superpower is imperiled.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Can anyone guarantee that none of this ransom money is going to fund other “community organizers” in the mid east?

Hell, Bambi’s probably already cut a deal with the scum to fund his reelection campaign in 2012!