Posted on 04/12/2009 10:07:05 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Dealing with Pirates 101:
Judi McLeod
April 13, 2009
Now that courageous US Navy Seals have been able to what they have been wanting to do for days, it’s time for Dealing With Pirates 101.
Barack Obama wants help from other countries in making Somali pirates accountable: The US Armed Forces already have the proven ability to deal with them.
Obama and Hillary Clinton should stop calling the pirates “criminals” and tag them for what they are, Terrorists.
Obama should have no difficulty identifying the Somali pirates for what they are:
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Is Pres--ent Ubama going to read him his rights? Is Receptionist of State Hillary Rotten Clinton going to cackle at him? Is the Congressional Black Caucus going to agitate for normalizing relations with pirates?
The captain’s rescue is great news, but let’s keep this piracy outbreak in perspective - it’s way, WAY down on the list of national security threats. Lawlessness in our own cities and our southern border far outweighs scattered piracy in the Indian Ocean in importance. Plus, we made the mistake of getting drawn way too far into in Somalia’s chaos before.
Dealing with Pirates 101:
POP POP POP?
I say we just open up a new Disney theme park in the area and hire them as cast members, make a unique pirate themed ride, you get to repel pirates from your yacht which has no defensive weapons, you get to experience being a captive hostage and then you get to be released.
They've already done that, twice. It's costing shipping companies billions shift the shipping lanes.
What needs to happen is for a few of these pirate mansions to go up in a ball of flames, women and kids included.
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Yeah, that might make 'em think twice! :)
It’s pretty simple. Arm the merchant vessels and tell the UN to go pound sand.
My thoughts exactly. The U.N. needs to tell its “pirate” buddies not to screw with the U.S.
I don’t think the US should go it alone. We should get some level of cooperation with every other country that uses those waterways and coordinate what we do with other major countries. But this is a serious problem that can and should be eliminated by us since no one else has really stepped up to take decisive action. It is a very real threat, otherwise we wouldn’t be reading about it. There may be more serious threats that aren’t getting the attention they deserve, true.
Yep, “Zero Tolerance and the Kill Shot 101”.
I don’t see a need to add “courageous” to “US Navy SEALS”, it’s redundant and implies that there is some other type.
Give the Navy and Marines a simple set of orders. Go along the coast of Somalia. If it has an engine and floats, destroy it. If the Somalis want to fish, they can do it from sailing vessels. End of story.
All I can say is: thank goodness David Axelrod and his polling shop managed to persuade Obama to authorize pulling the trigger and ending this humiliating farce just before the “Barry and the Pirates” t-shirts started hitting the streets.
Not to worry, I’m sure the vendors won’t lose money. The t-shirts will still sell well, for different reasons.
Yo ho! Arrrrrr!
(I want the one featuring Obama with an eye-patch)
I wonder if any of the kooks at DU et al are jumping up and down asking for Obama to punish the snipers who murdered the poor pirates with Evil Guns!
You’re missing a key point: Obama IS a pirate!
A socialist pirate.
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