Exactly. Once pirates know the American policy is surrender or die, they will stop attacking American ships, as all it will get them is prison or death. Sadly, we might need to sacrifice a few hostages to drive home that we are serious, but in the long run it would save many lives.
“Negotiations” should be only be used as a stalling technique to get our forces in place to attack.
I suspect that type of common sense and shrewdness may be above Zero’s paygrade.
How many destroyers must we have in place? And do these Effa Bee Eye guys even speak Somali, Swahili—whatever?
First Carter, then Clinton and now Obama. All weaklings.