The solution is simple.
Kill every pirate you can find.
Destroy the ports that harbor them along with all vessels.
Enjoy a cigar while watching the pirates scramble to build new boats and find food.
The vast majority of Somali's live peaceful lives and never touch a firearm. These pirates (and the communities who support them) need to be stopped.
It would be a relatively easy and inexpensive operation on our part so long as we have the backbone to just walk away after we crush the pirates/communities that harbor them.
---------- Post added at 12:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:41 PM ----------
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nimetic
Yeah I agree to some extent. I'm just saying that it'd be nice if they'd found another solution. Such as immobilizing the pirate in some way. Is that possible? Not sure.
But there are other people other there who will be sure.
And those people will maintain that the pirates did not shoot first. That there are more dead Somalis than US citizens. And those people will be pissed.
|
Fist, we have no obligation to allow the pirates to shoot first.
Second, they did shoot at the captain when attempted to swim for it the first time.
I am glad there are more dead Somali's than US citizens...it shows our Navy is doing it's job. Since when should we allow Americans to die in order to show fairness?
And I can tell you that attempting to immobilize the pirates would have been extremely risky to both the Hostage (are you forgetting they were threatening to kill a hostage) as well as to the rescuers. Since any reasonable person will value the hostage more than the pirates, they dealt with the situation in the way that most-reduced the risk to the Cpt.
As far as your last line, those people are irrational morons who should be ignored by the country. Who cares about the opinions of someone who would rather watch a US citizen get executed than a few kidnappers/pirates get whacked? The should be ignored. If they encourage more piracy they should be shot.