The Indian navy just got done sinking a pirated fishing vessel that still had the captured crew tied up below deck. Definitely an awkward move on the IN’s part – but more or less inevitable given how they’ve been……

I like that one about farting unicorns, etc. Seems to fit the whole ridiculous situation perfectly. It’s not our fire to put out….

DigginDeep on November 20, 2008 at 12:07 AM

It is and it isn’t. Disruption of the free flow of oil from this area is in the interest of all the oil users in the world. I like the Indian Navvy solution. If more pirates end up dead, there will be fewer pirates.

Wolf Kahler in Raiders of the Lost Ark

Let them know with loud speakers and air drop leaflets that they will be killed if they stay, after 48 hours start on the north west of the city and carpet bomb in 1/4 by 1/2 mile over lapping patterns until all of Mogadishu is so much dust in the wind.

Rinse and repeat for each and every warlord.

Its called squeeze the rat, its very effective but doesn’t do the tourist business much good.

Let everyone know about our newest additions to the superstructure.

Sit back and watch.

“As you can see by these exit holes, the navy that destroyed these boats were still using primitive ‘projectile’ weaponry …”

Tony737 on November 19, 2008 at 2:43 PM

awesome

Hopey McChange

Scorched_Earth on November 19, 2008 at 2:30 PM

THE best name I’ve seen yet for BHO. Request permission to adopt it.

As to a piracy solution, I refer back to Ann Coulter’s recommendation for the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Currently we have The Tarawa clas LHA (landing helicopter assult) which are currently being phased out. I dunno but maybe some sea based attack Helos would be a good idea. Or are all the Marine Corps Attack Helicopters being used in Iraq and Afganistan. Im just spitballin here.

One day, perhaps a thousand years from now, archaeologists will be unearthing these ‘pirate’ ships in what will by then be dry land.

“As you canb see by these exit holes, the navy that destroyed these boats were still using primitive ‘projectile’ weaponry …”

HawaiiLwyr on November 19, 2008 at 12:57 PM

You have two different ships in this thread. The “radioactive ship” was total Bull. It has left the area and is docked in Amsterdam, inspected and had no “Radioactive” cargo. The other ship, with the tanks, sits at sea watched by our guys.
Kemp

Snapiron on November 19, 2008 at 12:08 PM

I think you would see that, IF we thought the Saudi’s would not reduce oil production. They have been total dicks the last few years, I say why risk our men for these assholes? They have insurance. Let Allah look after them.

Kemp

Meanwhile, I still wait for my mortgage to be paid and for my free gas.

njcommuter on November 19, 2008 at 2:14 PM

That’s not a bad idea at all.

And it’s not like we haven’t done anything. NATO set up a narrow protected corridor through the Gulf of Eden and recommended all merchant ships travel through it. They also recommended they hire armed security teams while traveling through these waters. I think something like 10 out of the last 15 ships hijacked by pirates were outside the corridor and had taken no defensive precautions.

These ship’s owners are partly culpable. They don’t want to sail through the corridor because it takes more time and they don’t want to hire security teams because it costs money. They’re basically gambling increased profit margins at the cost of the safety of their ship and crew.

But I’m not saying we shouldn’t hunt down and kill these pirates. That sounds like a fun, productive, and relatively risk-free training exercise for our Navy and is a completely separate issue.

How to end piracy
Sink their ships

“Yet more violence”? The AP in that first paragraph appears to
equate piracy with enforcement, which is part of the reason why piracy
has begun to flourish again. Sinking pirate ships may in the……