Somali pirates holding a US captain hostage said using force to rescue him would result in “disaster
on 04/11/2009 at 03:49 AM
Disaster? Yeah, I can see it being a disaster… for the pirates.
Get a SEAL team involved, and when it’s all said and done, nary a pirate to be found on that little boat…
Then let’s have a game of “Lure many pirate ships out into deep water, and sink them.”
To be followed by the scouring of the sites where the Pirates come from....with liberal salting of the earth so that it cannot ever be used again for such purposes. For a few thousand years.
These barbaric savages know Президент Оба́ма is weak.While the US Navy is at it, how ‘bout “testing” some Mk 48s on those “mother ships?” I’m sure that there’s a 688 boat near there . . . or one of the converted Ohios that are now SSGNs . . . and carry SEALs. It’s not as if the “mother ships” have a lot of ASW assets.
Posted by BlueStateSaint
04/11/2009 at 10:34 AM
Hell yeah. Tell them, once, “Surrender or die”. If they don’t surrender, kill them. No more of this touchy-feely shit from DC. If we actually start showing a set…
Препятствуйте им ненавидеть, пока они опасаютсяBSS, Mk 48s have a problem with non-electronic spewing non-metallic objects like lifeboats.. They run too deep and with no metal, and such small mass, the torp is liable to pass under it and hit something on the far side.. possibly one of our own. HOWEVER, they do carry a variety of arms that are just perfect for taking out such a small object, a veritable smorgasbord of point defense that can be turned offensive with ease. In my day, for a frigate, it was 4 .50 cals and a slew of M-60s, I dunno what they carry now, but I believe they can probably still turn Mister Pirate into a fall of interestingly colored confetti.
Just a thought,
BillIsn’t seizing a ship an act of war? I’m pretty sure it is.
Let’s declare war on Somalia. Officially. We don’t have to invade right away, or bomb them, or anything. But having the declaration up and running would let us do anything, whenever we felt like it. And we aren’t willing to accept their surrender either. At the very least we could blockade their ships to within 20 miles of their coastline. The pirate mother ships at sea won’t be able to get home either, and will soon starve or surrender. Or move their operations to Yemen. Whom we then declare war on if they seize another ship of ours.
Meanwhile, we work the UN for all it’s worth. Get them in on the game, or we cut off their money completely. So we blackmail them into being multi-lateral. Then we clear the seas and torch the littoral all around the Horn of Africa and south. Everything from the beaches to about 10 miles inland should do it.
Once upon a time piracy was regarded by every civilized nation as such a heinous crime that it merited summary execution: rope, yardarm, no more pirate. Only the really notorious ones were hauled back home in irons to Execution Dock where they were chained below the high tide mark and left for two tides.
Who would ever have thought that the cheese-eating surrender monkeys would be showing us how to do it?
Posted by formernavalperson
04/11/2009 at 05:47 PM
I’m a little surprised that a SEAL team hasn’t solved the problem already. I had halfway expected that to happen the first time they were still at sea in that lifeboat after dark. Never see anything, never hear anything. Just pirates magically fall down with small holes in their heads, and *then* the chorus of “CLEAR!”
But I forgot. Putting a SEAL team on it would require a commander with some stones.
Navy SEALS’s train for situations like that. It’s too bad their CinC doesn’t have a clue what their capabilities are.
Jimmie Carter all over again.
04/11/2009 at 06:28 AM
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