Unless there are extremely mitigating circumstances, the commander who sent 20 US Service Members into “clear and present danger,” unarmed, deserves to be fired, court-martialed reduced in grade and made to serve on a ship plying the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Somalia, unarmed, with a jersey saying “Take me as hostage first!”
There is no reason that the several nations supposedly providing some safety against pirate hijacking, can’t provide a company of very heavily armed combat soldiers for each ship. The cost to the shipping company would be the care and feeding of their protectors. There are now at least 5 nations on patrol: the US, Russia, the UK, Japan and France.
When We become Emperor, this would not be allowed to happen. We would, with the advice and consent of the military, send in special operations units to make like hell for the pirates, including going after the so-called mother ships. The French seem to have done this already. What is the US doing about this?
April 9, 2009 at 1:01 pm |
I know what I would do if I were on that ship. I think I would have smuggled my 12 gauge shotgun and .357 magnum revolver on board.
Asking me to sail into a dangerous part of the world unarmed would, I think, be immoral, unethical, and just plain stupid.
April 9, 2009 at 1:16 pm |
I’m waiting for an explanation on why the Sailors were sent unarmed.
This was criminal.