PIRATES, SOMALIA AND LONDON. (readers, I have no idea if those outside UK can listen to this)
on 01/30/2009 at 08:10 AM
What was that? Somali Pirates again? Here’s the solution: nuke the sites from orbit, it’s the only way to make sure.
Macker, yeah. we all agree on that.
BUT ... thing is, the pros behind the guys doing the scut work. The quiet men (women too?)behind a desk somewhere with all sorts of gear and giving location etc. They aren’t in Somalia. Least way not all of em.
This thing is bigger then folks thought it was.We are nations of laws. Laws don’t preclude us from bringing out the really BIG stick, we just don’t tend to do it unless the need is great. I think we’re there, though.
The only reasonable response on land is to change the legal framework to define aiding and abetting of piracy as an act of high treason. Locate those doing it, collect the evidence, arrest, charge, prosecute, and sentence accordingly (the only appropriate sentence being the death penalty, or life imprisonment for those countries that don’t have the death penalty as a legal sentencing option.)
If we don’t have the will to do even that much, then we’re utterly screwed, it’s just a matter of time.
On the seas: Get the Benjamin Franklin, Los Angeles, and Seawolf class submarines into the fray. Let them stealthily follow everything leaving Somalia, and if anything attacks a merchant ship, sink the attackers, no questions asked. Consider it maneuvering and torpedo practice. If enough bastard pirates simply “disappear” (never to be heard from again) then perhaps the ones that are left will get the clue that the risks for this kind of career are TOO DAMNED HIGH.
If that doesn’t work, there’s always Macker’s option. Obliterate the pirates home base/country, and the 5th columnists within our own countries aiding them won’t have anyone to coordinate with anymore. We can root those bastards out at home, later.
Tiger. Right on and I’ve been banging on about 5th column in USA for a long time. But the problem is, nobody will really do anything about them. Nobody. And never mind 5th col. We have ppl in USA that belong to foreign organizations working very well and quite openly back home. Amnasty Intl. being one of them.
Hands are tied by left wing legal eagles and orgs. such as nasty, aclu, human rights groups etc.
They ALL need to be taken out to do any good. But since that isn’t gonna happen in my lifetime, things will continue on just as they are. And that is not a good thing.I think I prefer Macker’s solution. Unfortunately with a Presdent whp has family connections in Kenya which neighbours Somalia I rather doubt anything worthwile will occur. BTW what happened about BHO’s aunt. The one awaiting deportation. Don’t tell me she is still in the US?
BHO’s aunt is still in the USA. The Bushhitler signed some executive order prohibiting the INS from deporting people without high level clearance. This allow the POS aunt to stay in the states. I guess that she has a hearing or something in april.
01/30/2009 at 09:44 AM
01/30/2009 at 10:28 AM
