I’m still trying figure out why we don’t sink the “motherships” and machine gun the survivors in the water, then lay waste to the coast of Somalia.
You obviously didn't get the memo!
Exactly. Piracy has been around ever since man first set out on the seas. The penalty for piracy has always been death. Instant. Fast. No questions asked.
But we are so ‘civilized’ today to the point that we as a species have become a danger to ourselves by not recognizing the dangers all around us and reacting accordingly......
Because, you Silly Billy, our ever-so-clever Dear Leader is laying waste to the coast of Libya. They are closer, the names are cooler, like "Tripoli, and Benghazi," (They are also harder to mis-pronounce when read on a Teleprompter.), and he can actually find the place on a map the guy that follows him around has.
You know, the guy with a case, that gets all huffy when Dear Leader wants him to carry his gym bag. This guy is some kind of bus driver, 'cause Dear Leader saw a bus driver, back in Chicago, and they was dressed sorta like this guy. Dear Leader thinks he is a Racist.
Everyone keeps calling the case a "football," but Dear Leader saw a football once, at Columbia, and he's pretty sure footballs don't have lots of corners.
(The guy who made things easy for him at Harvard and Columbia followed him around, too, and told his teachers to grade on a special curve, 'cause he was Black, and Special.) The guy at Harvard was nicer, and helped Dear Leader with those paper thingies the teachers always wanted.
It's nice to be the Smartest Man In The World.
and to echo Jonascord - it is the rules of engagement. Lifted from the Jacksonville Times-Union this very morning... The newspaper was interviewing returning members of Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron 11. Here is Navy Lt. Overn’s story
“It was also Overn’s first deployment and his first taste of combat conditions.
It was his helicopter that intercepted pirates attempting to hijack a Filipino merchant ship, the M/V Falcon Trader II, in the Arabian Sea on March 24.
Overn’s Sea Hawk arrived over the ship just as two pirates had gotten aboard with a rope ladder and two more were scurrying up it from their boat. Overn’s air crew fired heavy machine gun rounds into the water near the boat, convincing the two to climb back down. The two already aboard jumped into the ocean.
As the helicopter then ushered the pirate vessel away, some of the pirates took pot shots at them. The aircraft returned fire, purposely missing the perpetrators but convincing them to flee the scene.
“Our hearts were racing,” Overn said.”
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