Avast, ye scurvy naves, perhaps this be less of a military issue and more the result of an economic and humanitarian disaster. We've made our dead-man's chest with this one and now we're surprised to be lying in it? Come, matey, the solution to Somalian piracy is to actually deal with Somalia. She was once a fine state, but she's no longer sea-worthy. It may be time to place the black spot and admit she's a failed state. Thar be solutions to this, though, and none of them be counter-swashbuckling.
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