What really happened here is that our Navy finessed their own commander in chief. He authorized the use of force only if the captain was in imminent life threatening danger. When our snipers finally got poised for a good clean shot at the perps, they simply took it, and qualified their actions by saying that they could see through the window on the lifeboat that a perp was pointing a gun at the captain. Notice that Obambi did not authorize the use of force to simply take out the perps.
I think the movie about this should be called “Easter Seals”.
Obama will most likely apologize to the families of the dead pirates and discipline the CO who gave the seals the green light.