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You were saying — If you destroy the pirates’ boats, if you destroy the pirates’ bases, and—truth be told—if you kill enough of the pirates, I think that will have a deterrent effect.

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Here’s the thing that I would like to know about this piracy thing. Why is it that the U.S. has to take care of it. I mean, once they get the captain back — why don’t all the other countries who have been having their own ships hijacked “left and right” for a very long time now — why don’t they do something about it?

Are they all just sitting around waiting for the U.S. to do all the hard work? It sure seems funny that it’s their ships that are “dotted all over the map” down there, and yet they just let it go on, over and over again, all this time — a very long time before now.

It’s like they expect the U.S. to do something about it. I personally would like to see those other countries do something about it.

One very easy thing for them to do, would be for those other countries to set up military jets, on call, for when a ship is threatened. During the time the ship is evading the pirates, the jets will have time to get there (either from a carrier or from a base, one or the other). Then the jets can blow the pirates right out of the water and sink their vessels on the open seas.

That’s what those other countries should have been doing over a year ago or more...

I guess too many of them want to wait around for the U.S. to do all the heavy-lifting... LOL...

This is Ron Howard's new world. You know, a world without "American militarism". This is precisely what you get. They will come out of the wood work in every corner of the globe. This Obama Presidency will be one of the most internationaly destabilizing factors of the early 21st Century. The Japanese are starting to recognize it and write it in columns and reports.

Soon (not yet though) the books praising Obama and slobbering all over him, even using his speeches to teach Japanese the English language, will be no where to be found in the book stacks at Japanese bookstores. Just a few more months........there is NO WAY they will continue to respect WEAKNESS if they figure it out and see it for what it is. (How long AMERICANS take will be another matter.)