Except that it isn't lighthearted to the poor 20 crewmembers left on board. This isn't Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean. These men are monsters. Yes, they made an incredibly stupid move when they grabbed this ship, but it's the welfare of the men on board that they'll negotiate with.
what would those pirated do if we just hooked up five tugs and pulled their ass out of there, parked them on the artic circle and waited for them to get cold and go home?
Piracy has been a serious problem for quite a few years now. It got some occasional mention in the first few years after the fall of what passed for a government in Somalia, and in the last six years or so (coincidentally, ever since all our guns were pointed at Iraq with nary a thought to legitimate concerns in the rest of the world) it's reached new heights.
These pirates seize ships and cargo by force, traffic in weapons on a scale that Saddam Hussein could only sigh wistfully about after 1990, and entertain their captives with beatings and rapes and murder. And profit handsomely. There is nothing cute or silly or whimsical to be found in any of this.
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go pirates!
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Either way, I find it depressing that my Pirate bretheren are reduced to using little inflatable rafts.
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These pirates seize ships and cargo by force, traffic in weapons on a scale that Saddam Hussein could only sigh wistfully about after 1990, and entertain their captives with beatings and rapes and murder. And profit handsomely. There is nothing cute or silly or whimsical to be found in any of this.
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