These dumb fucks will soon realize that they have made the mistake of their young and soon to be very short lives. The US Navy will take these turds down in a most violent way.
Send some Blackwater guys over to the ship. Tell them if they release the captain, they'll be granted a quick death. Otherwise, no. End of problem. Or get the UN involved, send in conflict resolution facilitators, promise foreign aid, ponder the question of why they hate us whne we only want to love them, apologize endlessly, tie yellow ribbons around trees, send Jesse jackson and Jimmy Carter to somalia to negotaite a ransom...
The entire city of Mogadishu should be in flames this morning. Instead we'll issue a strongly worded warning. Pathetic!
This whole piracy thing is embarrassing. How pathetic is it that the world's navies, with all the billions spent on them, can't defeat a bunch of half-starved somalis in old fishing boats? We board ships in international waters all the time for drug interdiction. Why not take the same approach? Any suspicious looking ship that leaves somalia gets intercepted and boarded. If there are weapons, the boat and crew are seized for suspicion of piracy. I am also getting sick of hearing the navy guys wail that it is a big ocean. We have airplanes, the pirates don't. We have satellites, they don't. The Saudis have AWACS planes. We can track every rowboat that leaves the somali coast.
Blah, blah, blah. Leave it to you to criticize the U.S. Navy. You have no idea what you are talking about. It IS a BIG ocean out there, you fool. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090408/ap_on_re_eu/eu_piracy_patrols_glance_1
And better yet, do like that hard ass general in the Phillipines did just before WWI, and let it be known that your bullets are dipped in pig's blood, making the Muzzies unclean if they get shot, thus giving these jackasses a straight shot into hell, rather than heaven. That ended the bullshit there in short order. WTF was his name. Pershing?