Great news.
A French Warship has dealt to a Pirate mothership and captured eleven pirates in the process.
Meantime Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, has unveiled a "four point plan" to tackle piracy in the Gulf of Aden.
Ms Clinton said
Maybe so, provided that the 21st-Century assets consist of more than talkfests and breast-beating.
A French Warship has dealt to a Pirate mothership and captured eleven pirates in the process.
Meantime Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, has unveiled a "four point plan" to tackle piracy in the Gulf of Aden.
- Send an envoy to the Somali donors conference set for April 23 in Brussels. The envoy will work with U.S. partners on ways to improve the situation in Somalia.
- Call for immediate meetings with U.S. partners in the Contact Group on Piracy Off the Coast of Somalia to coordinate an expanded multinational response. Specifically:
- Work to forge a renewed determination that states take responsibility for prosecuting and imprisoning captured pirates.
- Develop strategies to secure the release of ships and crews now held by Somali pirates.
- Explore ways to track and freeze pirate assets.
- Reiterate to everyone the U.S. policy of making no concessions or ransom payments to hostage takers.
- Organize meetings with Somali government officials from the Transitional Federal Government as well as regional leaders in Puntland and elsewhere.
- Press authorities within Somalia to take action against pirates operating from bases within their territory.
- Work with shippers and the insurance industry to address gaps in their self-defense measures.
Ms Clinton said
"We may be dealing with a 17th-Century crime, but we need to bring 21st-Century assets to bear."
Maybe so, provided that the 21st-Century assets consist of more than talkfests and breast-beating.
Sorry all I see from the US and UK is more hand wringing.
ReplyDeleteI have to wonder if we took a 17th Century approach and just blew them out of the water how long we would have this issue for.
Taking a life may be un-christian but it seems to be the only language these terrorists seem to understand.
A four point plan with 5 spare points. Nice.
ReplyDeleteLooking at this one:
* Develop strategies to secure the release of ships and crews now held by Somali pirates.
And this one:
* Reiterate to everyone the U.S. policy of making no concessions or ransom payments to hostage takers.
That really only leaves the strategy of blowing the pirates out of the water, or waffle.
It's also a reminder to ships to arm themselves and meet deadly farce with deadly force.
You forgot that Obambi will probably try to find some way to use USA taxpayer $ to adopt as many Somali pirates and bring them back to USA to live... because they just want to go to McDonalds and have a chat and then, ta da, they won't need to be pirates any more!
ReplyDeleteI did a post about this and while i'm not critical of the French and applaud them, this might not work out the way we think it will. Here are my thoughts on it.
ReplyDeleteSince we all know there aren’t any balls amongst the west to just shoot the bastards and blow their ship to pieces, this is going to get complicated and very, very expensive. Where will they be tried, which courts, back in France? Court costs, lawyers fees, you can’t expect them to defend themselves can you, all costs money. Will they be jailed during the duration of the trial, what if some leftist wants to bail them so they can coddle the noble savages and try to make up for past ills? If they’re found guilty, where will they serve their time, who will pay the costs of that, food, clothing, healthcare, education etc. If they’re not found guilty, then what, can they be sent back, and to where, Somalia, who will take them, who pays for that?
You’re dreaming if you think lefties in the western world aren’t going to cry about their human rights and how can’t you send them back to Somalia, give piracy a chance etc. They’ll be put on welfare for the rest of their lives, now if they’re innocent or later once they’ve served their jail time. And don’t even entertain fantasies of capital punishment. In most western countries, you can murder and eat hundreds of small children and they won’t execute you, let alone a few savages claiming poverty, western injustice, racism and all that if they have any brains.
Far easier and cheaper if they got all the info they could from the pirates and then blew them out of the water I say.