Somali pirates, what would YOU do?

[Oisín]

I say fair play to them. Them Saudi oil barons have been f*cking the world over for years, I'm delighted to see them caught by the balls.

[Aragorn]

Piracy isn't something new, piracy existed back in the Roman times, and most known in the Caribean 17th-18th century. Why does one become a pirate? I suspect poverty as a main reason.

How to resolve it? Good question

Nuke the entire Somali coast area

[Æmeric]

Piracy isn't something new, piracy existed back in the Roman times, and most known in the Caribean 17th-18th century. Why does one become a pirate? I suspect poverty as a main reason.

Piracy has always been a rich man's game. It cost money to initially obtain the ships & arm the crews. The Somali warlords exorted $150 million in ransom over the last year. This is big business based in a lawless area of the world. But it's given me an idea for the potential solution to another problem.

[Aragorn]

I dont mean from whom they got supported; the reason why a man decides to become a pirate,instead of a farmer or fisherman; poverty in his life plays a important role.

[Jimbo Gomez]

Absolutely agreed! We've been treating these subhuman pirates with kid gloves!

NATO and Russia have enough firepower to blow all those pirates off the planet, so why don't they do it? They even know where they are. What is preventing them? I think political correctness, and the fact that they are Africans ... hence untouchable.

Too many African countries are waiting with open hands to do America's bidding for proper compensation. Any African national army would be the perfect mercenary force to send to those harbours in other words. No need to waste good European soldiers on this fight...

[Skandi]

^They did that, Ethiopia was used thats one of the reasons why the problem is happening in the first place.

[Jimbo Gomez]

^They did that, Ethiopia was used thats one of the reasons why the problem is happening in the first place.

Ethiopia has a better record in Somalia than the USA. They had to pull out of Mogadishu, but they still control much of the countryside and smaller cities, either directly or through a local puppet warlord.

[SwordoftheVistula]

Now they are 'asking the UN' whether we can hunt the pirates. What a bunch of BS, we didn't ask the UN in the 1700s whether we could chase down pirates, we just did it.

[Beorn]

What would you do if you were in charge of bringing order to the area?

Discover Pirates docks. Track the Pirates to their homes. When all reasonable doubt is gone as to who is and isn't a pirate, a quick and simple execution of pirates and their families by either hanging or a bullet to the back of their head.

Either that or some other form of example must be made of them.

[Loyalist]

Perpetually fighting a defensive battle by using an multinational force to patrol the area is too costly and unrealistic. Even with such a system well in place, ships continue to be attacked on a daily basis, and adaquate response times to such attacks are impossible, as are rescue missions. Considering that the situation is now well out of control, and that Somalia is also a breeding ground for Islamic terrorism, it seems some sort of military operation to wipe out the pirates and militants, as well as restore some type of order, is badly needed. Ethiopia and the African Union are apparently no longer part of the solution, according to this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7778246.stm