Karen Allen
BBC Reporter: Americans 'Bellicose', Exhibiting 'Hostage Jingoism
April 18th, 2009 10:26 PM
BBC Kenya-based reporter Karen Allen is happy that the problem of Somali piracy, and the underlying problem of Somalia as a failed state, has been brought to the fore by the recent Maersk Alabama hostage crisis. But -- and you knew there was a but coming -- she complains that the approach favored by Americans may well be too "bellicose":The downside, though, is the bellicose way in which the…