> WillBo wrote: > these guys over the side i don't know. But this tripe about how they > *need* to be pirates is wholesale bullshit. >
There are 3 ways to deal with this: (1.) Tough guys. Law, and blow you out of the water, and we're badasses, and etc. That has a few executive options: (a.) Naval patrol. However there are over a million square miles of ocean to patrol (which isn't free). If you read that article you'll notice that it took our Navy, who were obviously in the area, 3 HOURS to reach the victim. 3 hours! (b.) Ship's Security. This would be hiring Blackwater of some such to "ride shotgun". Problem there is that it's both expensive and will create an arms race. (c.) Arm the crew. In general these are low paid, minimally crewed ships, and very likely the ships would just sustain huge damage which is also expensive. (d.) Attack the coast. That's probably not going to be very popular on the World stage. (2.) Nice guys. Send in some diplomats, but really special forces, and see if you can find someone local that can control the situation while you're pretending to negotiate and pay them a bunch of money. It's a tried and true technique IF such a person exists. Of course that's who Bin Laden is, so it can backfire. As I've said, personally I'd pick #2 at this point since the risk with being a tough guy is that you create a Robin Hood. Overall, the problem I see with the PEOPLE strutting around like tough guys is that they don't seem to understand what the feck they're talking about. Which makes them very similar to the people who strutted around talking tough about Hussein ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:295081 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
