re: #183 Last Mohican

Anyone interested in the Daily Kos take on today’s events?

For the most part, they’re just praising Obama’s wonderful leadership. But then there’s this angle:

Most people don’t just get up one day and say “Gee, I think I’d like to be a pirate!” The East Coast of Africa is a lawless, incredibly poor, place, and that’s when people start sizing up how many dudes with guns it would take to take on one of those big-ass Russian ships going down the coast.

Doesn’t change anything in a case like this, but looking for root causes is not totally crazy, because we’re going to have to look for ways to get this situation under control.