Posted on 05/05/2010 9:01:41 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Clearly, the 2006 kidnappers were too young to have learned the lesson of the ‘80s.
Piracy is an industry, which does not operate in a vacuum. They need port facilities and repair facilities for their boats. The pirates have homes. They contribute to the local economy. The whole village is the pirate support infrastructure.
The pirates are effectively operating in a state of war against the rest of the world. The only effective treatment would be for the rest of the world to treat the Somali coastline like it would have treated enemy bases during WW2. Namely, carpet bomb any village from which pirates operate.
Yes.
No survivors.
Well, then . . . that goes to the effectiveness of the message, yes? Perhaps this Rambo-thing has its limits. Maybe even with Somali pirates.
Precisely. There should be no limit to how many innocent civilians we kill. They all have flies up their noses, anyway. Eff 'em, they're not human.
Face it, you have no idea how long Russian diplomats were "off limits." Unless you keep track of Russian diplomats, that is.
Our aversion to any possibility of harming enemy "civilians" is what guarantees we cannot win.
The last war we thoroughly won, World War 2, saw us bombing entire enemy cities into rubble. We incinerated Dresden and Tokyo. We nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We killed hundreds of thousands of women and children. And we did not delude ourselves that this is what we were doing.
We did what we needed to do to win.
No Rambo needed, just kill them. Worth a try, sending them to NYC for indictment and 3 hots and a cot isn't working.
Moscow -— send in the Speznatz for a Wet Mission.
Looks like you formed your conclusion and worked your way backwards. There's a more efficient and cost-effective way to solve the problem: place armed guards (i.e., mercenaries) on ships transiting the problem area, with agreement between shipping companies to rotate them on-and-off. Companies agreeing to the program receive the benefit of support provided by the various nations participating in CTF-151. Companies that do not--"no pay, no play."
The mercenaries operate by Ready4Freddy's rules, really, a no brainer (no offense intended). There's no need to send in the B-52's, like we're all watching Apocalypse Now. Killing a bunch of skinny women and kids with flies up their noses is pointless (and expensive), despite PapaBear's need to prove a social point to himself.
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