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Is 8 ships starting to get into a range where a rescue attempt is a possibility? Certainly a difficult and dangerous prospect, but 8 is better than 30, and removing hostages from the equation would...

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We don't know. We add risk and cost to their equation until they stop, then we know. Of course as long as they hold hostages it's hard to do that, which brings us full circle.

I'd like to see a...

I would go along with that, except that the last stage might be better held until the rest are accomplished. I'd also prefer to see some action taken against financiers, ransom collectors, and other...

If we could fix Somalia, we could solve the piracy problem.

If my aunt had a putz, she'd be my uncle.

"If" is possibly the longest word in the English language, and true statements are not...

Interesting development...

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and, naturally...

Money is half of what sustains piracy. The other half is the absence of adverse consequences. People in most corners of the globe don't engage in piracy because they wouldn't end up rich, they'd...

Do jobs and money bring social stability and law, or is it the other way round?

What people have to lose in this case is the large income provided by piracy... and you're right, they want to...

We can't create a stable Somali state, any more than we can create a stable Afghan state. We can bleed ourselves into the ground trying, but we cannot create a stable state in an unstable society. ...

My comment was a somewhat tongue-in-cheek reference to our prolonged and futile effort to install and sustain an Afghan government that suits American criteria for "good governance", an integral part...

Why would Obama need "cover" to get out of Iraq? Why would Obama (or anyone) have wanted the US to stay in Iraq? Not like drawing down in Iraq was a terribly unpopular move, or inconsistent with...

Maybe for the same reason we couldn't go into Afghanistan, wreak havoc, growl "don't make us come back", and leave. We had to stay around and try to bring truth, justice, and the American way.
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I have, and I think you're oversimplifying it, and reorganizing it retrospectively to serve an agenda... but since it's way off the topic there's no real point in pursuing it.

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Still can't imagine what you'd have wanted him to do, at least not that he could realistically have done. Easy to judge with hindsight, or as a back seat driver.

Would that be the half that they were already sitting on at the time? Posession being 9/10 of the law, it hardly seems like it would be necessary to give them what they already had. it's not like...

When you start hearing about an American, European, or Chinese solution to an American problem the alarm bells should turn into shrieking sirens. Our "solutions" are no more effective and way more...

Even from the perspective of a non-military guy it seems odd that everyone in the picture is looking in the same direction... seems like possibly a bad practice if there's a possibility of a bad guy...