U.S. To Pirates: "Son, You Dun Goofed."
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Modern Freighters use radar and have telescopes on them... Basically they always see the pirates first, well before bullets fly.
If only there was an international, possibly UN-Sponsored "law" that said: If you spot something pirate-like approaching you in the gulf of Aden or the Western Indian Ocean; Please destroy it."
That way each cargo vessel can carry a simple, cheap, shoulder-mounted, heat-seeking missile or bazooka and take out any threat long before it approaches. -Having fun and doing us all a favor in the process.
That'd stop piracy in days, flat.
If only there was an international, possibly UN-Sponsored "law" that said: If you spot something pirate-like approaching you in the gulf of Aden or the Western Indian Ocean; Please destroy it."
That way each cargo vessel can carry a simple, cheap, shoulder-mounted, heat-seeking missile or bazooka and take out any threat long before it approaches. -Having fun and doing us all a favor in the process.
That'd stop piracy in days, flat.
You speak the truth. Their pieces are always like that.
lol Translation: how hard is it to create an international incident? Jefferson might agree with you, though.
Oh, I'm not saying we couldn't win. I'm saying POTUS doesn't want to have to call the Somali president, and explain why our folks are RPG'ing his coastline and killing his folks.
Doesn't matter whether it's warranted. Just can't do stuff like that without creating a major headache.
This isn't about whether or not we could win, fool:
Dude. You just spoke about the Somali president as if he or she existed.wikipedia said:
It's really a no-mans land there... If someone there claims to be the president one day, the next they'd be eaten by pirates. I doubt they can even get phone lines into the "capital" if it exists, much less have a safe talk with the POTUS.
Honestly, nuking the entire region is the most humanitarian thing we could do. -Expensive though... I'll settle for blowing all their boats out of the water.
There is a person with power that the president could try to contact. The only problem is that he is also a pirate.
Damn, I hadn't heard they were killed, and I just learned of the capture yesterday.
Ships going through that area should be allowed to be armed, but thanks to the UN (or EU?) that's difficult.
Probably equivalent to stemming the tide of illegal drugs in the US one truckload at a time.*
Wouldn't that make the global warming situation worse?
I kid, I kid. :costumed-smiley-015
*I am not anti-legalization, just saying
Ships going through that area should be allowed to be armed, but thanks to the UN (or EU?) that's difficult.
Probably equivalent to stemming the tide of illegal drugs in the US one truckload at a time.*
Wouldn't that make the global warming situation worse?
I kid, I kid. :costumed-smiley-015
*I am not anti-legalization, just saying
That booty they give out just fucks everything up even more. A cup of coffee in these coastal pirate towns now costs $5 USD/cup, no joke.
problem is, most passenger ships CANT outrun the pirates and the pirates have better firepower a lot of times.
We are talking rocket launchers, automatics, long range, etc. Yeah they might be 1970 soviet era weapons, but still better then what passenger vessels carry with them.
Also, when the bullets start flying and pirates are chasing you down, lots of people freeze up and that causes their capture.
We are talking rocket launchers, automatics, long range, etc. Yeah they might be 1970 soviet era weapons, but still better then what passenger vessels carry with them.
Also, when the bullets start flying and pirates are chasing you down, lots of people freeze up and that causes their capture.
I just had a nice idea for sport tourism.
Instead of making hunters pay thousands to kill a rhino in Africa, what about a Somalian pirate hunting excursion?
Instead of making hunters pay thousands to kill a rhino in Africa, what about a Somalian pirate hunting excursion?
@bold, for real. Went there when I was like 13 or 14 on some school trip, and it was the shit. Beside of the front door there was this giant weighted cable setup that tracked the date and time each week. The whole place was just filled with all kinds of random cool stuff like that.just another reason I poured a little out on the curb last night for my dead founding father Thomas Jefferson, my all-time favorite US president. Also noteworthy was Jefferson’s belief in the power of technology, which extended far beyond Presidential policy. He invented an improved plow himself and was the architect of a navy with leaner gunships. He ran the nation’s first patent office as Secretary of State and There were few aspects of his life that weren’t informed by his idealistic belief in the power of ideas.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSP9a1VMQCk]YouTube - The Pirates Of Somalia - Somalia[/ame]
There was also a CNN interview with a pirate who was able to send his family to the states with the money he looted.
These people pretty much have no choice. I'd steal without hesitation if my life depended on it.
There was also a CNN interview with a pirate who was able to send his family to the states with the money he looted.
These people pretty much have no choice. I'd steal without hesitation if my life depended on it.
THIS^^^
And the last part is the most important. A lotta tough talk goes on here, but I (and any other combat vet here) will tell you:
The ability to stand fast and return fire is NOT something most people are born with- it's trained into you, or I should say the natural instinct to flee and hide is trained OUT. But your average merchant seaman or passenger definitely does NOT have it.
PS - LOL at the guy who thinks a few RPG's on the coastline would be effective. May as well toss firecrackers at a mountain, mate... Think cruise missiles, and start counting the collateral damage in thousands of people.