For Pirates, Obama's Big Stick
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What pirate wouldn't think of branching into a new line of business, like a U.S. ship? That's what happened Wednesday, when one of the Somali gangs, using criminal networks to obtain shipping plans and expensive GPS systems to locate targets, went for the Maersk Alabama.
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Obama's response was a resolute and overwhelming one that's likely to demonstrate to bad actors everywhere that he's not about to hand-wring or go to the United Nations, but show that the U.S. will come after its own with the full force of its military and security apparatus.