Seeing how this report comes from Newsweek it should be expected that they will be on the side of the pirates and against the US Military.

They forget to mention that all the ransoms paid are passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices for the goods transported. 

Fortunately Newsweek is soon to be defunct.

It was his order right? 

Funny how when a few rouge soldiers @ Abu Graib act inappropriately without orders, it's Bush's fault, but when it's supposedly a clear order from Obama - it's still the rotten Military.

The media gives Obama the credit for solving the problem but yet still attacks the people who actually solved it.  It's so nuts.  

The lefty "logic", once again, being:  "If you resist the pirates, you're only going to create more pirates."  So do nothing, or just throw "butter" (money) at the countries involved. 

Whatever you do though, don't hurt the thugs and murderers.  You'll only create more.

Idiots.

Hmmm . . . I seem to remember reading somewhere that mock executions were a form of torture and were illegal under the Geneva Convention.  I guess what is good for the pirates is not good for the safety of the American public is another takeaway message here.

 I am not sure where the idea started, but I am all for the U.S. Navy disguising naval vessels as cargo ships and springing the trap on the pirates.  It would at least make them think twice about going after U.S. flagged ships!

...for staging mock executions on a hostage in an extortion attempt!

I hope we don't hear that they put captured crewmen in confinement boxes with a caterpillar, because that would really be drawing a line in the sand.

These guys can always come up with what they think is a "well-reasoned" and "thoughtful" rationale for curling up in the fetal position and doing absolutely nothing, can't they? Call it the "Bill Moyers Doctrine" 

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

And if it makes them angry and they retaliate, kill even more of 'em.  And so on, until they get the message.  Isn't that the basic idea of a military conflict?

And if the lib response is "Well, they'll just attack more of us", then we use a bigger weapon, until they do get the message.  Blow the entire buch of them right out of the water, no taking prisoners and putting them on trial or negotiating with them or promising to give them millions in aid if they'll just be nice.

Show me one conflict where the aggressor backed off because the attacked party decided to be nice and not retaliate...

Absolute airheads.  Maybe we should ask Garafalo to take her large, enlightened liberal brain over there and show the rest of us how it's done.  But one caveat...if they take her and demand ransom, she's entirely on her own to use that well-formed limbic brain to get herself out of the mess.  End of her.

Does anyone recall a few years back the Carjackings epidemic?  It seemed that it was easy to carjack someone and the penalties for doing so were very minor.  So when the criminals discovered "the market" was wide open and profit verses loss potential was high, being the entrapanuers they are they started expanding the market.  That is until laws were enacted and enforced and then it died down to a trickle.

The Somalians are no different and we must show them force and tell them no or they will continue and expand "the market".  So to me its very simple.  We should only protect our ships with force though and leave the rest to teh vultures.  Unless we are paid handsomely. 

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

I cancelled due to excessive Obamanism there. I felt a little sick at three simultaneous head shots, but the navy was looking out for an American citizen, and that is the govt's job. This is a tough world. Now, though, what can we do about this? It is just going to continue...whether they are outraged or not. And might I add that the contention that the pirates (can we get another less half-humorous, half-romantic term, like seagoing armed robbers?) were cross about ecological atrocities--well, that took at least the cupcake in this. Why did I even learn to read if I had to read that?

So, what are they proposing?  That the U.S. should've just ignored the incident and let the selfless brave captain fend for himself?  That they should've just handed over to the pirates the ransom they asked for?

Call me old school, but my understanding regarding basic behavior modification is that positive reinforcement leads to more of the same behavior, whereas negative reinforcment suppresses more of the same behavior.  If the behavior is repeated after negative reinforcement, then you simply have to continue to follow through consistently with it until the behavior does indeed eventually stop.

Looks like being a eunuch is a prerequsite for employement at Newsweek these days.

I would love to see more of the US Nave assets combating these pirates.  You do not go and appease these people, it will only make the bolder.

And as far as there land bases are concerned, how about this as a suggestion?

"The wrOng ONE was elected"

"Wilson says one captain was taken ashore and subjected by pirates to "mock executions." But the captain was not injured, and Wilson says the pirates apparently only wanted to frighten him as part of a "negotiating tactic." "

sounds like waterboarding - we should try all the pirates as the criminals that they are!!!!!

I hate the New York Times more than it hates the US Military

The pirates themselves have said they are going to attempt to murder American sailors for revenge.  I don’t see a need for an alternate point of view on this fact.  I suppose your premise is that Newsweek is somehow writing that the pirates are nice bad guys, yet I don’t see how you reached that rather warped conclusion.  By stating the fact that the pirates are now out for blood when they weren’t before is not at all a statement that the U.S. action in killing the pirates was wrong.  It is merely a statement that the situation has been escalated to a higher, more dangerous level, which is of course is quite true.  Show me where Hosenball and Isikoff have actually written that the U.S. Naval action was wrong and a bad thing and that they are pining for the good old days when pirates were fabled good bad guys.  I am betting that they didn’t write anything like this.  Prove me wrong.

They ought to concentrate on the pirates as much as they are eyeballing so called "right-wing extremist" in this country. 

Left up to me, Mogadishu would have leveled as an abject lesson to not mess with U.S. flagged ships.

I know, I know, you lefty's in here would talk about proportion. But I just don't give a damn anymore.  The U.S. doesn't want to be pushed around anymore?  Then don't put up with it. Not one time.

I am sick of this BS, it is going to take a big hit on the US to wake these lib twits from their utopion world, and we will have to deal with it cause they will under the desk with nappies and kleenx because they will be shitting themselves and balling at the same time

I have come to the conclusion that demonuts are more than 2 sanwiches short of a picknick

Well, perhaps Newsweek is correct.. all hell broke loose after Clinton's "Black Hawk Down" incident. There was some rather extreme killing that went on after the incident -- I mean there was nothing like waterboarding 3 people, or putting a terrorist in a box with a caterpillar. None of those sort of horrors - only mass killings.

President Bill Clinton swelled with rage, and as George Stephanopoulos wrote:

"'We're not inflicting pain on these fuckers,' Clinton said, softly at first. 'When people kill us, they should be killed in greater numbers.' Then, with his face reddening, his voice rising, and his fist pounding his thigh, he leaned into Tony [Lake], as if it was his fault. 'I believe in killing people who try to hurt you. And I can't believe we're being pushed around by these two-bit pricks.'"

The AC-130 gunships were put in the air... some sources say that hundreds to a thousand civilans were killed. Only God knows how many people, including women and children had their legs and arms blown off.. (but remember - no bugs in a box - noooo.. we didn't do things like that back then)

Then, satisfied that his rage had been releasd, Clinton pulled out.

Then... after that .. well.. we had the twin embassy bombings in Africa, the Cole, Afghanistan fell to the terroist radicals, and then... 9/11.. and now pirates on the high seas.

Perhaps Spain should consider charging Clinton with causing all of this.

(;~/ gary

I just watched Capt Phillips' brief statements after he landed in Vermont. He spent 5 minutes thanking everyone...

Except President Obama -- LOL (at least I didn't hear Obama's name)

He thanked his family; neighbors; crew; and especially the military.

But not Obama. I love it.

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The challenge is to follow a consistent plan despite inconsistent prices - Sarah Palin, State of the State of Alaska speech

The Boss is the one who shows they mean business and can back it up. The Boss is the one who survives as well.

If the pirates are upset and come after us, hit them hard and hit them fast. If they are still showing some fight take it to them and end it as fast as possible with a clear win for you. That works in self-defense, it'll work against the pirates as well.

There's nothing wrong with shooting, as long as the right people get shot....Dirty Harry.