re: #245 ggt

” Pirates now hold about a dozen vessels hostage and more than 200 crew members. The Maran Centaurus had 28 crew aboard - 16 Filipinos, nine Greeks, two Ukrainians and one Romanian, Harbour said.”

WTF?

Piracy is one of those things where I don’t understand how they get away with it. Exactly how “bad” would it be to issue a standing order to the Navy that pirates are to be fired upon on sight and just let the big guns take care of the rest?