Sharks In the Water

If you don't learn from history you are doomed to repeat it, the article mentioned the british blockade of France, yet somehow seemed to skirt around how that was accomplished, it mentions expense but does not ecplain how the blockade that was succesful occured, give up? For some of you old movie fans and sailors out there the answer comes easily.
But of course today's government does not want to recognize certain facts, they may be looking for weapons of mass destruction.
Perhaps they have legions of clerks searching for exactly the right words to spell it out, there really is no nice way to say it, the cost of operating a navy is enormous the British knew that and they had 2 ways of reducing that cost one was simply going into a town and making people serve the navy for free. The other was piracy under a term called angary a force seized what they needed and whatevert they captured they took.
Not nice is it?
It is not nice that in this day and age there are pirates.
Politics seems to be ignoring facts re-labeling certain actions to sound good ( weapons of mass destruction) taking actions with "plausible deniablilty" and using regan-like accounting methods (like a toilet seat for 1,500) ((wonder where some of that money went to))
Fact is George Bush was head of the C.I.A. and weekly denying to the media that we were in Laos, Thailand and Cambodia then when he became president one of his first acts in office was to give medals to soldiers who were in Laos, Thailand and Cambodia.
There is a problem in India with "terrorists" (call them pirates maybe?) now India and Packistan may indulge in an exchange of nuclear missiles, George W. sent Donald Rumsfeld over to collect a debt owed to enron, this debt was incurred through a 3 part plan to "modernize" India's electrical power, first a coal fired plant (excleint for global warming) second a gas fired plant and lastly a nuclear plant, this plant was capable of supplying 20 times more power than the whole country was using at that time, What do you think their thougths are when you have more nuclear material than you need to make power?
All in all the way I see it, governments let problems form then come up with half-assed solutions and in the process have a few extra dollars to spend on things they wanted but could not get away with otherwise.
So what are we doing here, looking for solutions or creating problems so that the solutions will look acceptable to John Q. Public?
Bread and circus's that is how the roman's controlled their population, and if worked very well the decline was due to greed and stupidity not public acceptance or correction of problems,
As I said prior those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it,
So I am writing a book "The Rise and Fall of the American People".

Kill them! Problem solved.......

Blow them out of the water and send them to the murky depths of the sea.

are these pirites the type of pirites that frequent all male after hour clubs

All vessels sailing within 500 miles of Somalia should be armed with sufficient arms to obliberate the pirates. Hit them when they attack rather than wasting time & money cruising around looking for pirates in an area too vast to adaquately cover.

Why don't the 20 nations who have sent naval crews out to patrol, actually board the ships who need safe passage? Have the armed forces already on board when the ship leaves port, that way when the pirates try to take the ship, the ship will already have men who are trained to protect the ship.

Submarines are the answer to this problem. I would bet my life that the U.S. and other countries have several subs in this area on patrol. I like the idea of having "bait ships"....large oil tankers, cruise ships...whatever...that intentionally sail in dangerous waters. When an attack on one is imminent, a silent black behemoth emerges from the depths, cuts the pirates & their boat in half with a few .50 cals...then submerges again. No questions asked...piracy problem solved....and the sharks eat well for a day.

This is Dumb. some reporter telling the Military how to best use its resources.
Pssh, OK.

Letters of Marque would be an Internationally accepted and legal means to fight the pirates, at no cost to any goverment.

Give mercenaries a bounty on each pirate and pirate ship taken or destroyed. A fast and cheap solution. You can also dust off an atomic bomb or two and drop it on the pirates... an even faster and cheaper solution.

WE HVE TO FIGHT ANY KIND OF TERRORISM,BEING AT SEA ,AIR OR LAND......
TOGETHER WE STAND!

You want to solve this issue once and for all. Put raiders in the waters steaming back and forth off their safe havens. The German navy used them during world war 2. Put a dozen freighters and other vessels off shore that are heavily armed with camouflaged canon's and other armaments manned by navel personnel including seals (not just US ships but others as well) And just blow them out of the water when they attack.

Invite them to San Francisco, give them amnesty, and have their leaders interviewed on Opera and the View. Then give GM, Ford, and Chrysler the money to build plants in Somalia so the population can join the UAW and get life-time medical benefits and $78.00 an hour.