I'll be interested to see what Obama does(n't) here. So far he's been feckless.
He’s been completely feckless. But that defines his approach to everything that might involve offending his good buddies.
Somebody somewhere has got to stand up and say that this must stop. Obviously, Hillary is as bad as Obama, but there must be a grownup somewhere in our government who recognizes the stakes here.
We’ve essentially let lawlessness overtake that part of the seas. It has been so long since we have had to worry about piracy that we take it for granted that the oceans are safe. But there was a time when every ocean voyage and even fishing trip was done in fear of pirates. There have been many other pirate groups - the Vikings, the pre-Christian Irish, even the English and the French in their day (although they were often considered privateers and a free-lance extension of their country’s navy), and of course the Muslims, from anywhere and everywhere. All of them except the Muslims have abandoned piracy, which can paralyze trade and national economies and is too dangerous to be tolerated.