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2005-12-01 Africa Horn

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Posted by Steve 2005-12-01 09:53|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...and these pirates have harmed Europeans.

So sorry - the Europeans are busy doing such marvelous work on the Sudan problem. Then there's that little matter of finding just the right venue for chatting with the Iranians. Oh, and those simply dreadful CIA flights...

Posted by Pappy 2005-12-01 12:34|| 2005-12-01 12:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Not only that, Pappy, but they have this wonderfully equipped, trained and effective peacekeeping force they could use. I mean, just look at Bosnia!

Posted by lotp 2005-12-01 12:36|| 2005-12-01 12:36|| Front Page Top

#3 And Kosovo! Mustn't forget the simply stellar work that's being done there.

Posted by Pappy 2005-12-01 12:44|| 2005-12-01 12:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Guys, how can you leave out the stupendous job they're doing in Paris? I hear the number of car burnings is down to five a night, and rapes are down to fifty!

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-12-01 13:05|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-12-01 13:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Why doesn't the Navy take care of the pirates in a conventional way? Dispatch planes from a carrier, blow the pirates out of the water, or put a missile into their craft. Take care of the pirates in open water never to be heard from again. End of problem. Why are special ops even needed?

Posted by CaptainHook 2005-12-01 17:12|| 2005-12-01 17:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Hook, did you even read the article?

Posted by Pappy 2005-12-01 18:38|| 2005-12-01 18:38|| Front Page Top

#7 I am pleased to see this development, but I am disgusted to continue to hear that Somalia is still some kind of "tar baby" in DC. Post-Fallujah and post-Afghanistan takedown, I'm pretty sure that Mogadishu is no longer much of a boggeyman.
As for the pirates, the threat doesn't warrent a carrier battle group. They are piss-ants. I'm sure that the CO of the cruise ship could have capsized the Boston Whaler if he had wanted to - an RPG round may have splintered the teak on the Lido deck, though.

Posted by Super Hose 2005-12-01 18:53|| 2005-12-01 18:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Pappy, I indeed did read the article.

Posted by CaptainHook 2005-12-01 21:51|| 2005-12-01 21:51|| Front Page Top

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