Politics
Out of context: Reply #6548
- Started
- Last post
- 33,773 Responses
- TheBlueOne0
Well, the battle is engaged now, so circumstances will simply force Obama and other civilized nations to ramp up the military response. But like I said before I think the proper course, and what I think Obama should do, is respond forcefully militarily both in response to and pre-emptively as possible within the framework of international maritime law, while also pursuing all soft power responses as well.
"Angry pirates vowed retaliation for the deaths, raising fears for the safety of some 230 foreign sailors still held hostage in more than a dozen ships anchored off the coast of lawless Somalia.
"From now on, if we capture foreign ships and their respective countries try to attack us, we will kill them (the hostages)," Jamac Habeb, a 30-year-old pirate, told The Associated Press from one of Somalia's piracy hubs, Eyl. "(U.S. forces have) become our No. 1 enemy."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090…
So in other words, it's on. Cork is now off the bottle.
- I'd expect to see more mercs on ships as well...TheBlueOne