Posted on 04/11/2009 8:37:38 AM PDT by papasmurf
NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali pirates hijacked an American-owned tugboat with 16 crew in the Gulf of Aden, the head of a Kenyan seafarers' program said Saturday.
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Americans are being targeted, and Obama orders a pizza.
Yes because he can't be expected to answer questions about Americans being held hostage when he's doing a presser on housing. Speaking of Jefferson I just started a six volume audio book on him. Should take me a bit to get through.
The Indian Navy has shown the fortitude to light em up , maybe we could outsource our Naval tasks to India too!
The free for all has begun.
Maybe it’s time for shipping companies to refuse to go through the Suez canal until the situation is dealt with. Sure its expensive but I suspect it will become effective in a hurry.
The Obama Administration is allowing itself to be defined.
Yes he can!
I mentioned the same thing about myself to a friend a couple of weeks ago.
A consequence of the election perhaps?
Someone else pointed out that the European press is serving the same function for us today that Radio Free Europe did for the folks who lived behind the Iron Curtain.
What are you expecting our emperor to do? After all, he’s on the side of the pirates.....
We could probably supply half our country's energy needs by attaching generators to all the founding fathers spinning in their graves.
I am fast becoming a believer and supporter of ethnic cleansing.
Clearly, some folks simply NEED to be killed.
This is a proof of the zero effect. Any other time, when the American military gets involved, enemies won't take the liberty of hijacking another vessel and "reinforcing" their presence rather the results first.
The pirates aren't afraid of zero bombing their bases or capturing them.
I suggest that zero goes there, bows to the chief pirate, drop a waterproof money bag and solve the situation peacefully.
This is what we get for allowing ACORN and the left to elect an ignorant child POTUS.
You are wrong on this one.
Pirates must pay a heavy price for attacking US property OR taking US prisoners.
Time it is for the Western world to realize that it is they who carry many of these nationals. These whole countries included. Yet, having contributed in foreign aid and these well meaning do good people - who go there to "help", these parasites want more.
We will wait and see if the Italian Prime Minister is made of sterner stuff. Prayers for the absolute success of the US navy and auxiliaries. Someone has to get nasty here, very nasty.
Basically, Obama is keeping RADIO SILENCE on this story! (Not so different from FDR. Where the famous WW2 poster said: LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS.)
But I read a little blurb, where family members of the 20 M-Alabama crew “got to call home.” Now that the ship left Captain Phillips in the water in the Indian Ocean. Surrounded by America’s mighty US fleet. And, with the FBI (allowed by Congress), to intervene in all INTERNATIONAL cases, that involve American hostages.)
No news doesn’t mean bad news.
As a matter of fact, the M-Alabama has NAVY SEALS on board. The ship is being sailed with Navy Seals in charge. And, the little bit that leaked out? Came because family members received calls from the crew.
Just because Obama speaks softly, doesn’t mean he doesn’t carry Teddy Roosevelt’s BIG STICK. Is it possible today’s republicans forgot that Teddy was a republican? (Of course, he got disgusted with Taft. And, ran against his own party as a Bull Moose.) He failed, then to establish a better GOP.
I’ll bet we have American talent that can come to a good conclusion, here, with the Somalis will learn “not to board” American vessels to take hostages for ransom.
The Israeli ZIM LINE ship that escaped from Somali hands did so because the crew had stretched BARBED WIRE ALL ACROSS THE DECK. SO the Somalis had no choice but to “climb down.”
Perhaps, there’s more than one way to skin this cat?
“Someone else pointed out that the European press is serving the same function for us today that Radio Free Europe did for the folks who lived behind the Iron Curtain.”
IMO seems to be the truth, other than BBC Socialist Television, which seems to emulate American Socialist Television.
More and more the enlightening news articles all have a UK add’y on them, but then many quality reports are coming out of Japan, S.Korea, India, Australia, and Canada also.
“Maybe it’s time for shipping companies to refuse to go through the Suez canal until the situation is dealt with.”
That would be great. That action would put world pressure on the water terrorists. But, that’s something that would have been done 30 plus years ago, not anymore. No one has the fortitude to take bold actions that could result in a positive outcome any longer.
Would one of us have been CINC, that Navy ship would have had a plan for taking that American in the first minutes upon arrival.
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