Kill the pirates: As the Marines demonstrated long ago, there's only one way to end piracy

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | April 12, 2009 | Jack Kelly

[2ndDivisionVet]

History always repeats itself, it seems. Mr. Obama isn't even another Warren Harding, much less Thomas Jefferson!!

[Mike Darancette]

Looks like that is exactly what happened. Preliminary report: Captain freed 3 pirates dead one captured. Somebody had a plan!!!

We will never know what happened-and that is good.

[stylin19a]

The red stripe on the dress uniform trousers of Marine officers is in commemoration of the blood their predecessors shed that day....

I suppose "Officers" is including NCOs.

[fanfan]

He’s free.

Check breaking!

[BIGLOOK]

The Skipper of the Maersk Alabama is safe. Three pirates iced.

Works for me.

[umgud]

Now that the captain has been freed, we now need to go sink the mother ship(s). You know we know where they are.

[anymouse]

3 - 0

[2ndDivisionVet]

PING!!

[2ndDivisionVet]

NCO means Non-Commissioned Officer.

[mc5cents]

The U.S. military has plans for dealing with the pirates, which need only the president's approval to be put into action. The crew of the Maersk Alabama has passed its test. Will President Barack Obama pass his?

No. He will not give an order to kill fellow Muslims. It is that simple.

[TMSuchman]

The “Blood Stripe” comes from the War with Mexico when the MARINES went into Mexico City and took the old Aztec capital. They lost a large part of the NCO’s that went due to the plan of battle. So to remember them the “Blood Stripe” was placed on the Dress Blue uniform.

[donmeaker]

Andrew Jackson took on some pirates that were esconced on an island of Spanish Florida. Of his “violation” of Spain’s territory he said “Pirates are the enemy of all mankind.”

Nation states have the responsibility of controlling their territory. To the extent they fail, they lose the benefits of sovereignity.

Congress was unhappy with General Jackson, and reduced the number of US generals by one (there were two, the senior General was Winfield Scott). Jackson’s election as President was his vindication.

[stylin19a]

I know..I was one...for awhile. Everybody knows Corporals REALLY run the U.S.M.C. I forgot my sarcasm tag in my previous post.

[gaijin]

The Somalis value clan affiliation. Sorry to say it, but I honestly think we should go kill their families, now.

Business, sorry...!

[Choose Ye This Day]

Way to go, Easter SEALS!

[Memphis Moe]

Now we need to put an active “wolf pack” in the gulf and sink any pirate vessel floating in the water; hit them without warning and without quarter.

Surface and machine-gun any survivors.

America must protect itself and its own.

Enough of the self-destruction orchestrated by the obamanists.

[knighthawk]

Good job on the SEALs, but is Obama already apologizing to the islamic nations because we killed muslim-pirates?

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Except the Barbary Pirates were not destroyed by that action, only temporarily checked. The problem was not solved until the French colonised Algeria in the 1830s.
The article does allude to one thing that did solve piracy. As France did with the Barbary Pirates, Britain did with the Carribean pirates not simply by raiding pirate bases, but occupying their nests and imposing responsible government. That is what needs to happen in Somalia before the pirate problem is resolved...

[HiTech RedNeck]

If Somalia is an anarchy, why isn’t somebody like China or Russia interested?

[ari-freedom]

because Somalia is an anarchy...