I wonder how many of the Saudi ships have been hijacked. Maybe not too many. I don’t really know. But, if even one was hijacked, I bet they paid some good money for it... :-)
If so, then the Saudis ought to be paying us to solve the piracy problem over there instead of paying “ransom money” to the pirates. This is no time for the U.S. to be “bailing out” the rest of the world on this situation, when it’s really the “world’s problem” and not ours...
They supply oil to us....and keep Iran off Balance....
GHWBush41 put us in Somalia. Our Marines and Ambassador were taking care of business.
Clinton42 fired the Ambassador and put the Rangers under the UN without armor or gunships.
Predictably Blackhawk Down darkened our world--and Clinton fled.
Osama bin Laden in the 1998 ABC interview said he was surprised at how quickly the U.S. fled--and was emboldened to do the Embassy bombings, the Cole, 911.
Now Somalia is stateless and piracy is rife.
Hussein has been in denial over any war on terror, at any problem with Islam at all--everything is the fault of America.
He tries to tell us "we're talking about housing" but events won't suck up to the boy wonder as the slavering media will.
Hussein has consistently criticized American leadership in the world--but now the world is watching. . .him. . .
He still appears the punk--but the American crew and captain, and the American Navy shows itself a strong horse--
--and will deter further attacks.
“I wonder how many of the Saudi ships have been hijacked. Maybe not too many. I don’t really know. But, if even one was hijacked, I bet they paid some good money for it... :-)”
$3 million
Saudi tanker ‘freed off Somalia’
January 9,2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7820311.stm