Quote Originally Posted by Gistok View Post
Gotta agree with you Cc... the more they ransom, the more money they get... the more money they get... the more boats and weapons they buy... the more boats and weapons they buy... the more brazen they become....

Funny how no one [[except for us and maybe the French) learned from the 200 year old lesson of Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Coast pirates...

If they continue we should bomb some coastal villages/fleets that house these thugs. Villagers that house these now rich warlords are starting to get worried that we'll do just that. Since our military has become relatively good at surgical strikes, perhaps collateral damage [[loss of innocent life) can be kept to a minimum.

Patrolling an area 1/3 the size of the continental US in the Indian Ocean is logistically prohibive...so we need to be proactive, rather than reactive.

You start bombing them then you will have the whole world against you. These countries know that they screwed over these people. Problem is the ranson money got good to them and now it would be hard to go back to just being fishermen. The companies look at the ranson as a cost of doing business that's why they keep sailing ships in those waters.