I personally don't feel there is anything going on in the world that was a more serious threat to the long-term health of the United States than those pirates.
The idea that FOR YEARS they could at will hijack and kill and hold hostage people and ships and cargo is unacceptable. The growth in that "industry", and the total lack of consequences, would have encouraged the same type of action, and for any small armed group around the world from starting to take hostages in larger and larger numbers. Trucks in Mexico, ships around the world. Planes at small airports. It _has_ to be stopped. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > >> JJ wrote: >> >> I think the resolution to this latest hijacking was effective. >> > > That's a pretty short-term way to think about things. > > The problem is, now you've got Somalis promising to kill Americans and > The French whenever and where ever they find them. > > And you can't just go into Somali waters and start blasting every > boat. So who's a fisherman and who's a pirate? You have no idea > until the fisherman try to pirate someone. > > Very likely that means that either the US Navy is going to start > having to escorting all shipping traffic or, at a minimum, the > shippers will have to hire a company like Blackwater. > > On the other hand, in this case, there was probably no choice. > > So what remains is a question of whether we're at war with Somalians. > Last time it didn't work out so well. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:294856 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
