Thomas Jefferson and Barak Obama - Dealing with Pirates, Then and Now
The Navy’s efforts are highly commendable, our President’s orders are troubling and leave us with a few questions. Did Obama’s administration plan to negotiate and pay a ransom? Mr. Obama is quite well acquainted with the Qur’an in its original language, is his knowledge of America’s history just as deficient as his many faux pas at the recent G20 Summit showed his judgment is? Should not a President of a country know its history well enough to learn from what worked and avoid what didn’t? Or was the American taxpayer to be soaked again and again in “bailing out” Somalia’s warlords?
While making the pirates pay a heavy military price is the only way to stop piracy, America is militarily overextended. However, a united front of European/American/Asian/Muslim nations can stop this threat of the high seas in its tracks. Saudi Arabia has been threatened, China has been threatened, various European nations have been threatened… Will they coordinate a united respon