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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)2/22/2011 11:58:13 am PST

re: #406 Naso Tang

It’s not viable only because nobody wants to seem like the bad guy to the Somalis in case you get upset.

No, it’s not viable because of the size of the coastline of Somalia and the cost of the interdiction.

Actually an additional approach is to have two or three man crews with chain guns and long range .50 calibers ride shotgun through the region.

Have you ever seen the ocean? Do you have any clue, at all, how much manpower this would require? Seriously, do you?

Do I have to explain the obvious? No, only those fishing with RPGs and machine guns and no ice in the holds.

Ah, okay. So fishermen have to be vastly underarmed versus the pirates, and the pirates just have to steal a catch of fish first. Cool.

Well, aside from having a lousy temper when you debate, you sure don’t offer any solutions, and on top of that it sounds like you think all Somalis are pirates.

Yeah, since you’ve strenuously avoided my actual point, I’m tired of your fantasies of just killin’ all the pirates.

that it sounds like you think all Somalis are pirates.

Nope. Especially since I talked about fishermen, this is your stupidest claim yet.

Try not making easily demonstrably false claims. It’ll help.