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Seriously, it’s 2008 and we can’t stop pirates. Not “quit stealing my intellectual property” pirates – though we can’t stop them either – but “quit stealing my oil tanker, ya scurvy ridden sea mutts” pirates.
It’s bad enough that it’s 2008 and I do not have a flying car, but also the high seas are flooded with pirates. More Jetsons, less Mad Max, please.
Posted by Apollo in Global War on Terror, The Past Is Never Dead--It Isn't Even Past
In a news article about an earlier pirate episode (the mystery tanks for Kenya, or possibly the Sudan), there was a mention of a ‘pirate spokesman’ being interviewed by satellite phone.
Evidence #632 that we are living in a science fiction novel.
It’s hard to think of a situation that cries out more clearly for blazing weapons. You hijack a ship in international waters? It’s a race among civilized nations as to who gets to blow you out of the water first.
Yeah, this just screams “target practice” to me. And to the Indians. I guess if there was an ocean named after my country and it was the only ocean in the world infested by pirates, I’d be pretty aggressive about going after the pirates.
I think it was Max Boot who suggested offering Letters of Marque to mercen- er, private security companies. I’ve no problem with this.