Piracy (No, This Isn't About The US Financial Crisis)

Back in the old days, great nations knew how to handle piracy. Looks like that knowledge has joined the many other lessons on history's junk pile.


The US Navy is tied up elsewhere, European "powers" dither and bluster, while internationalists enumerate the legal reasons for not acting against the Somali Pirates.

Meanwhile, India shows us the way: Crush the pirates under foot like the pissants they are. And they didn't even ask for a UN resolution or consult with France first.

An Indian warship has exchanged fire with a pirate "mother vessel" off the hijacking-plagued Horn of Africa, leaving the ship ablaze, an official said Wednesday.

Indian naval spokesman Nirad Sinha said: "Given the condition we left it in, it would have sunk by now," he said.

Now if we could just end the pirate standoff in this country.


http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/19/somalia.pirates/?iref=mpstoryview

http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2008/11/a_surge_to_wipe_out_pirates_of.html