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...
Other countries apparently pay the ransom as a cost of doing business.
There is no international community.
As John Bolton said, the U.S. Navy is the law on the sea.