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Ending Somali piracy: few options for US forces
On 4/15/2009 5:03 PM Nonnymus "tweaked" on too much Starbucks said:
Tom K wrote: "JCarnaghie" wrote in message ... Kurt Ullman wrote: In article , "Tom K" wrote: Brilliant... I guess you didn't bother to read the article. They can't even find them. There's 1900 miles of coast line. And when they do find a boat, they can't tell the difference between real fishermen and pirates. And last time we tried something on land in that country, it resulted in the real life case of "Black Hawk Down". The only real way might be to pull the ships a little farther away from land, declare an exclusion zone and say anything originating on the coast that goes past that point will be sunk. Period. Even that is iffy at best. It might be iffy, but it certainly would put a crimp in the pirates operations. No small boat fishermen go 100 miles offshore to legally "fish" so it would not impact the legal folks. The real "problem" is that there is no functioning government, and successful pirates make lots of money without any apparent risk. Kill a few dozen of them, and "properly" display their remains and you might see a real difference in the number wanting to go "pirating.". Meanwhile, give the ship's crews some appropriate arms and some training to increase their self defense capability. Cheers, John in LALALand (On the Left Coast) So... you want to give high end weapons to cargo ships with crew from countries like Liberia, etc? You can't give the cargo ships something simple like guns if the pirates have rocket launchers. So if you give cargo ships high end weapons, how long before those high end weapons are sold on the black market? --Tom Why is it any of our business what a Liberian ship carries in the way of defensive arms? I thought we were discussing American ships. I believe we armed merchant ships during wartime, so I see little difference.The exclusion zone would be a good thing, since it could be defended from the air. . . warning shots followed by true interdiction. Another alternative would be to let groups of Americans charter ships and sail them deliberately in harm's way. Aboard would be the Americans, but secretly armed to the teeth. When the pirates approach the vessel, they'd get the surprise of their soon-to-be brief life. The Americans could keep the trophies- appropriately mounted- and it'd be a great version of going on an African Safari. George, Ray or Cal could arrange the hunting charter. You might be a redneck if you sail a fishing charter off the coast of Somalia and use c4 explosives and that's just to catch the fish! Any pirate gets wind of American rednecks using C4 to fish ain't going nowhere off land period. Get 'er done! -- ________ To email me, Edit "blog" from my email address. Brian M. Kochera "The poor dog is the firmest friend, the first to welcome the foremost to defend" - Lord Byron View My Web Page: http://home.earthlink.net/~brian1951 |
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