[r9etb]

I submit that you're still engaged in chest pounding. It's easy to talk about SEAL teams boarding ships and freeing hostages; much more difficult to have it done reliably -- and "reliably" is the key word here.

I’ll say it again. All we need is an administration with the will to permit it. We have the people. Not the administration.

To be sure, this administration is a total waste of space and air.

But you'll notice that nobody is following your advice here -- not the Russians, the Chinese, the French, the British -- nobody. And at least some of them do have "the will" to take action when it's possible to do so.

One reason is probably that doing so will cause the pirates to no longer take hostages, but instead to just immediately kill the people on the boats they capture.

[Grumplestiltskin]

“One reason is probably that doing so will cause the pirates to no longer take hostages, but instead to just immediately kill the people on the boats they capture.”

Your logic makes no sense.

The #1 reason that the pirates are operating is for the payment of ransom, usually (but not always) for hostages.

No live hostages, no ransom. It doesn’t take much intelligence to understand that.

I will _guess_ that few or none of the pirates know anything about the operation of large vessels (such as the oil tankers they have captured). In those scenarios, killing the crewmembers would result in vessels that could not be controlled (at least by the pirates). So again, killing the hostages (at least at first) would make no sense.

[Munz]

>One reason is probably that doing so will cause the pirates to no longer take hostages, but instead to just immediately kill the people on the boats they capture.<

makes no sense at all.
we would then just sink the boats

they are in this for the money.

You have to take away their incentive.

they want money and to be able to live to spend it.