I just copied the text and link, I didnt say it was true. Clearly he was wrong on this point.
Keep in mind he was speculating over the ship owners actions. Maybe their #1 goal is getting their boats back with no holes. You take your live at big risk on a ship in that area without a military escort as I put in a couple of comments. Someone questioned if the guns were allowed in the ports.
I apologize to you, sickoflibs, for perhaps coming off to harsh to you. I did not mean that, and I was very upset with how things worked out for our fellow four Americans abroad. The damnably pat attitude of that answerer on Y!A is a major part of the reason.
In the US of the last thirty years there’s a million reasonable excuses for NOT doing what has to be done with such pirates. For not doing what is the MORAL and GOOD thing to do.
Kidnap for ransom is a crime against humanity, one that is not less a crime than serial murder. When it becomes a cultural or regional practice it is of far greater consequence than serial murder to a society.
In the Muslim-Arabic cultures it is a permitted practice. It has to stop, even if that means wiping out those cultures. That is what is moral. Toleration of such activity is immoral.