Posted on 04/14/2009 1:47:42 PM PDT by AJKauf
While the rest of the world celebrates the Navy Seals’ killing of the Somalia pirates, and the freedom of Captain Richard Phillips, there is one group of writers who want to alert us all to the real message of this incident on the high seas: it’s the fault of the United States!
First comes Matthew Yglesias, who departs his usual perch at The Atlantic to offer his words of wisdom to the readers of Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast. He tells us that “the ocean is extremely large.” Amazing that he noticed what so many others have failed to observe. I’m being sarcastic, but he explains that the Indian Ocean alone is too large for foreign navies to patrol it.
And, he adds that sometimes rescues don’t work. The French, he tells us, killed one of the people they were seeing to rescue in a military action. Of course he neglects to mention that four others were freed, while without the rescue, all of them might have perished....
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Getting interesting....
Ping to a report on the Lefties thinking regarding Somalia....and the pirates.
WELL..., the “piracy problem” (itself) certainly isn’t the problem of the United States — and in *no way* should we be the ones who clean up the messes of all the other countries and shipping companies who did create the piracy problem, by paying ransoms for several years.
The American Taxpayer should *not* be doing *another bailout* of those countries and companies, through our military to clean up *their messes*. Why should the American Taxpayer be forced to *spend* all that money for our military to clean up the messes that others have paid *millions of dollars in ransoms* for?
*Those others* sure do seem to have the “money” — so let them solve the problem themselves...
Imagine if Bush had given the order to take out the pirates. The NY Times headline would have read, “Bush Orders Murder of Three Black Muslim Teenagers”.
Al Sharpton referred to the pirates as a “volunteer coast guard”. What an idiot.
The pirates are just practicing what our federal government does every day. Threatening us with imprisonment and even death if we don’t fork over a large percentage of our paychecks.
:-) ... oh yeah...
Great call. It appears that in that part of the world it's wet, too.
To this guy and his colleagues history starts everywhere with the first U.S. intervention. If he thinks Somalia was stable in 1992 I've got a bridge to sell him.
Standard crap coming out of liberal mouths. If it where not the fact that millions of ill-informed and not yet adequately young people as well as hordes of the older dopes continue to be brainwashed from the lib point of view, I would just say *uckem all. But we cannot discount their powers of deceit.
Michael Kelly would turn over in his grave if he could see what they’ve done to this magazine
April 4 was the anniversary of his death in 2003(?) in Iraq.
“First comes Matthew Yglesias, who departs his usual perch at The Atlantic to offer his words of wisdom to the readers of Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast. He tells us that ‘the ocean is extremely large.’ Amazing that he noticed what so many others have failed to observe. I’m being sarcastic, but he explains that the Indian Ocean alone is too large for foreign navies to patrol it.”
Apparently Blackbeard et. al. went completely unopposed, and the Barbary pirates got the best of us. Earth to Yglesias: pirates go where the booty is. They don’t roam the oceans randomly; they hit shipping lanes. Also, pirates can’t stay on the water forever. They have to resupply.
By the way, I agree that most every job is too big for any government, be it inspiring scientific break-throughs or providing cost-effective healthcare. However, when it comes to meeting violence with violence, they’re relatively adept.
What about privateers? I’m not sure the U.S. military needs to carpet bomb pirate ports. If these thieves had to deal with mercenary ships and 50 caliber guns, they might think twice.
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