Today's post is a copy/paste from a comment I had made on Facebook regarding the sailor being held by the pirates.
They need to get that Navy ship close, and bring some sharp shooters on board. Assign two shooters per pirate, in case one screws up and doesn't make a clean kill shot. On the count of three, everyone pulls the trigger. Bam - you have a boat with a bunch of dead pirates, and one live captain who just shit himself.
Next, start hunting them down on their own turf with half the US Navy's fleet with one rule - NO live prisoners, kill on sight.
That would send a message that we're done pussy-footing around, and would immediately make the area safer.
But, our leaders would never allow us to react in such a manner, which would construe us as to having a set of balls.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
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Kevin, this morning I saw news photos of the lifeboat. It is a bright orange, fully enclosed capsule, greatly complicating rescues or even snipers.
ReplyDeleteWhat now? The captain did escape briefly last night but was brought back immediately by the pirates.
They have several handheld radar and xray devices now that can see through walls, so that's an excuse.
ReplyDeleteI heard today the pirates who were "racing to their fellow pirates'aid" in those big ships they had taken, complete with hostages for the pirates' own protection, turned back "because we couldn't find the location of the ship."
ReplyDeleteAn unidentified spokesman for the U.S. said the pirates had GPS and couldn't have missed the location, with all the U.S. ships filtering in (with choppers and other anti-pirate goodies).
How funny. I still worry about Capt. Phillips.
Kevin
ReplyDeleteDo you suppose we could get nuisance permits to hunt pirates, such as I got in the late 1990s for shooting varmints on our property?