http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090415/ap_on_re_af/piracy 

I'm sure this thread will just turn into an Obama rant but this is getting ridiculous. Why do not just blockade Somalia and blow these fools from the sea?

The area they need to cover is far too large for one country to patrol. It would have to be a coalition of countries whose interests were at risk, such as France, US, Great Britian and possibly Russia among others who have the resources to support full scale naval operations. Right now, we're stretched thin as it is. Carrier deployments have gone from 6 months to anywhere from 8 to 11 months. We're going down to 10 carriers. We're going to need support and I think some countries will find it cheaper to pay the ransom than to send ships and sailors. Sad, but true.

We have no spine.

the United States of Mr. Lubner?

Letters of Marque will soon be distributed.

Some of the ex-Navy guys will have a way to go make some real money

JadeRose:

I blame His Excellency Barack (Idi Amin) Hussein (boy whiner) Obama.

(I gotta give my audience what they want...)

I recommended bombing the hell out of the pirate leaders. Send a message to them like we did Qaddafi.

Another thing is to start deploying decoy ships with armed marines on board. Kill a few of them, capture others, feed the captured ones to the sharks, and put the video tape out on the Internet.

Then we'll see if the attempts to capture American-flagged ships increases or decreases. I'm laying odds it'll decrease.

#6

Thank You potts.....I was growing concerned for your safety. I thought maybe the Stormtroopers had arrived at your place..they told me it would be either today or tomor....uhhhh....nothing...nevermind.

We should put the heads of

NINE!!!!!!

pirates on the bows of our ships.

LOL! @ Potts #6!

It wouldn't surprise me in the least that this most recent attack was a test to see what His Excellency Barack (Idi Amin) Hussein (boy whiner) Obama would do in this kind of situation. Many of the pirates are still affiliated with Al Qaeda.

RE#11,

If he is smart, he will do the same thing he did with the hostage situation. He didn't threaten, saber rattle, or bluster. He just let the seals do what they are trained to do.

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

I disagree. It's basically playing defense, and these guys have already shown that they aren't going to go away.

As many people have already pointed out, this is a replay of the Barbary pirates.

I heard they were the ones that smuggled WMDs out of the Iraqi ports

The U.S. is reportedly setting up a command post on shore to deal with the Pirates. UN has sanctioned it, too. Funny how you can get nations to agree when money is at stake.

BTW, I wouldn't recommend feeding them to the sharks. Could be bad for the sharks, some of which are endangered. Any time you step outside of an animal's natural source of food, bad things can happen to the animals (diseases, dependence on feeding, etc.).

However, Somali farm land could prolly use some ferilizing. How hard could it be to ship a wood chipper there? Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeooooooooooooooooooow floosh!

Easy fix.........eye patch sanctions.

Just STOP exporting eye patches to Somalia........parrots too.

Problem solved.

all sailors should be forced to have internal bombs planted in them.... pirates take them..... boom

Any boat flying the Jolly Roger should be destroyed!!!!

and jolly ranchers should be boycotted

15^

Sharks have been eating Pirates for a long time.

Does walking the plank ring a bell?